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No. 66 


AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Appointment and Duties of City Physician of 
the City of Holland. 


Passed May 12, 1875. Approved May 12, 1876. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Office of City Physician. 4. Duty of City Physician. 
established. 5. Report. 

2. Who can hold office. 6. Deputy. 

8. Term of office. 7. When to take effects. 


The City of Holland Ordains:-—— 


Section 1. That the office of City Physician be and the same 
is hereby created and established; the office to be filled by the 
appointment of the Common Council, the same as other officers 
are appointed under the charter in such cases made and provided. 


Sec. 2. No person shall be eligible to hold the office of City 
Physician except he be an accredited and practicing physician, pos- 
sessing a diploma or certificate from some well accredited Medical 
College, and a resident of the city. 


Sec. 3. The City Physician shall hold his office, subject to the 
conditions of the Charter in such cases made and provided, until 
the first Monday of May of each year, or until his successor is duly 
appointed and qualified. 


Sec.4. It shall be the duty of the City Physician to visit and 
administer medical and surgical aid and treatment to any and all 
city poor, when called upon by the Poormaster or anyone author- 
ized to administer relief to the city poor. 


Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the City Physician to report 
to the Common Council, on their first regular meeting of each 
month, the number and cases treated; the number and nature 
of the diseases; the name of each person receiving medical aid from 
him. He shall also make an annual report to the Common Council, 


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; Holland. 
Passed May 12, 1875. Approved May 12, 1875. 
Sec. Sec. 
. 1. Establishing City Library. 8. Report of violation of 
2. What to constitute. rules. & 
8. Council may apply money. 9. Annual Report. 
4. Library Fund. 10. Books purchased} and 
5. When money may be ex- donations to belong to 
pended. library. 

6. Librarian. 11. Library where kept. 
7. Duties of Librarian. 12. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. That a Library be and is hereby created and 
established, to be known as ‘‘The City Library of the City of Hol- 
land;’’ and the same shall be maintained in accordance with the 
provisions of the charter and this ordinance. 


Sec. 2. All books, papers, periodicals, printed matter and 
manuscripts, heretofore known as and belonging to the ‘‘Holland 
City Library, and Library of the Public Schools of the City of 
Holland,” and belonging to the city, shall be and constitute a 
part of said City Library. 


Sec. 3. The Council may apply to the purchase of books 
therefore, in addition to the amount received on account of fines 


and forfeitures, an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars 
annually. 


Sec. 4. All moneys received into the City Treasury from 


fines, penalties and forfeitures, shall be placed to the credit of the 
Library Fund. 


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Sec. 6. Whenever it shall appear by the report of the City 
Treasurer that such fines, penalties, and forfeityres so paid in, 
amount to fifty dollars, then the Common Council shall expend 
the same in the purchase of books and other printed matter as 
they shall deem expedient. 


Sec. 6. The Common Council shall appoint a Librarian, who 
shall hold his term of office subject to the conditions of the char- 
ter, until the first Monday of May of each year or until his suc- 
cessor is duly appointed and qualified. 


Sec. 7. The Librarian shall have the care and custody of 
said City Library and obey and enforce such rules and regulatious 
as the Common Council shall from time to time adopt for the care, 
custody, and maintenance of said City Library. 


Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to report to the 
Common Council forthwith any violations of the rules and regula- 
tions so defined to him by the Common Council, for the care, 
custody, and maintenance of said City Library. 


Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to report to the 
Common Council at its second regular meeting in the month of 
April of each year, and oftener when required. The number of 
books in the Library. The catalogue value of the same. The 
number of different persons drawing books. The number of books 
drawn during the year. ‘The number of books lost during the year; 
their title and value. The amount collected for fines and damages. 
The number and titles of books added to the Library during the 
year and the cost of the same. 


Sec. 10. All books and other printed matter purchased or 
acquired under the provisions of this ordinance or received from 
donations, shall be deemed to belong to and constitute the ‘City 
Library of the City of Holland.’ 


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designated by the Librarian, subject to the approval of the Com- 
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Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take immediate effect. 


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at their last regular meeting in the month of April of each year, 
which report shall contain a recapitulation of the above facts and 
a full statement of all cases, persons and diseases treated by him 
during the year. 


Sec. 6. In case of the absence or inability of the City Physic- 
ian to attend to the city poor, it shall be his duty to deputize some 
other physician to act in his place and to perform his duties during 
such absence or inability. 


Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take immediate effect. 


No. 67 
AN ORDINANCE 
Relative to the Establishment, Maintenance and Control of the 


City Library of the City of Holland. 
Passed May 12, 1875. Approved May 12, 1875. 


Sec. Sec. 
. 1. Establishing City Library. 8. Report of violation of 
2. What to constitute. rules. 
3. Council may apply money. 9. Annual Report. 
4. Library Fund. 10. Books purchased} and 
5. When money may be ex- donations to belong to 
pended. library. 
6. Librarian. 11. Library where kept. 
¢ Duties of Librarian. 12. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. That a Library be and is hereby created and 
established, to be known as ‘“‘The City Library of the City of Hol- 
land;’’ and the same shall be maintained in accordance with the 
provisions of the charter and this ordinance. 


Sec. 2. All books, papers, periodicals, printed matter and 
manuscripts, heretofore known as and belonging to the ‘‘Holland 
City Library, and Library of the Public Schools of the City of 
Holland,’ and belonging to the city, shall be and constitute a 
part of said City Library. 


Sec. 3. The Council may apply to the purchase of books 
therefore, in addition to the amount received on account of fines 
and forfeitures, an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars 
annually. 


Sec. 4. All moneys received into the City Treasury from 


fines, penalties and forfeitures, shall be placed to the credit of the 
Library Fund. 


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No. 80 
AN ORDINANCE 


To Provide for the Support of the Poor of the City of Holland. 
Passed March 24, 1877. Approved March 26, 1877. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Director of Poor. 7. Monthly investigation. 
2. Duty of Director and Com- 8. Director may furnish aid 
pensation. in cases of distress. 
8. Committee on Poor. 9. Person upon whom order 
4. Duty of Committee. was drawn to report to 
5. Report of Director and Council. 
Committee. 10. Annual report of com- 
6. Duplicate reports, and the mittee. 
filing thereof. 11. Repealing clause. 


12. When to take effect. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. The office of Director of the Poor of the City of 
Holland is hereby created and established. Said office shall be an 
appointive office, and the appointment thereto shall be made an- 
nually by the Common Council, at the time and in the manner 
prescribed by the charter. 


Sec. 2. The Director of the Poor shall be charged with the 
care of the poor of the city, and he shall provide for their relief 
and support in such manner as is now or may hereafter be required 
by the laws of the State, the Ordinances of the City, and the resolu- 
tions of the Common Council. He shall receive such annual salary 
as the Common Council shall determine by ordinance. 


Sec. 3. At the first regular meeting of the Common Council 
held after each annual city election, the Mayor shall make and 
announce the appointment of the standing committees of the Com- 
mon Council for the ensuing year. One said committee shall be 
known and designated as the ‘‘Committee on Poor,’”’ and shall con- 
sist of three aldermen, representing three of the several wards of 
the city, to whom shall be referred all such matters, relative to the 
poor of the city as the Common Council may direct. Said com- 
mittee, with the Director of the Poor, shall also perform such 
duties, investigate, have charge of, and report upon all such mat- 
ters as are prescribed by this ordinance and as the Common Coun- 
<i] shall direct. 


Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Poor, pre- 
ceding each regular meeting of the Common Council, to meet with 
the Director of the Poor at his office in the city, and investigate 
and determine upon all applications for aid and support that may 


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have been presented by persons coming within the provisions of the 
law established for the support of the poor by townships. 


Sec. 5. .At each regular meeting of the Common Council tne 
Director of the Poor, with the Committee on Poor, as aforesaid, 
shall make and present to the Common Council a report of the in- 
vestigations made and the result reached as required by section 
four of this ordinance. Such report shall give the name of each 
applicant, his or her age, occupation, residence, number in family, 
causes leading to want, prospective continuation and amount of 
aid, if any, recommended to be given until the next regular meet- 
ing of the Common Council, and such other information or recom- 
mendations as shall be deemed proper. 


Sec. 6. Such report shall be drawn up by the Director of the 
Poor and made in duplicate and shall be signed by him and a 
majority of the members of the committee, and one copy thereof 
shall be placed on file in the office of the Director of the Poor. 
The Common Council shall prescribe and furnish the necessary 
blanks for making said reports. 


Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Director of the Poor, with 
alternatively one of the members of said committee, once in each 
month, to make an investigation relative to the condition and 
alleged wants of the several applicants recommended by them for 
aid; and the first report made in each month shall state when and 
by whom such investigation for the previous month has been 
made. 


Sec. 8. In all cases of distress arising between the regular 
meetings of the Common Council, the urgency whereof will not 
admit of postponement until the next regular session of the Com- 
mon Council, but requiring immediate attention and relief, tha 
director of the poor, with at least one of the members of the Com- 
mittee on Poor, shall be authorized to furnish the required aid and 
relief by issuing orders to that effect drawn upon such person or 
firm within the city as the circumstances and exigencies in each 
case may require, unless the Common Council at a special meeting 
during such interval should otherwise direct. The first regular 
report of the Director of the Poor and the Committee on Poor 
made thereafter shall include a complete and detailed statement 
of such action, the relief furnished and the circumstances leading 
thereto or causing the same. 


Sec. 9. The person or firm on whom such order shall be 
drawn, upon furnishing the articles or supplies therein designated, 
shall present his or their account to the Common Council with the 
erder attached. Said account shall be certified to by the Director 
of the Poor. 


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Sec. 10 At the last regular meeting of the Common Council 
in the month of April, in each year,after 1877, the Director of the 
Poor and the Committee on Poor shall make and present to the 
Common Council an annual report, containing a consolidated state- 
ment of all the reports made during the year as herein required, 
giving the whole amount of aid furnished during the previous year, 
and how much to each individual or family. Said report shall be 
made in duplicate and one copy thereof filed in the office of the 
Director of the Poor. . 


Sec. 11. Ordinance No. 75, entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Creating 
the Office of. Director of the Poor,’ approved August 16, A. D. 
1876, is hereby repealed, and the Director of the Poor now in office 
shall continue as such until the expiration of the term for which 
he was appointed. 


Sec. 12 This ordinance shall take effect on the 31st day of 
March, A. D. 1877. 


No. 117 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Black River Bridge. 
Passed April 6, 1886. Approved April 7, 1886. 


Sec. Sec. 


1. Bridge to be examined. 

2. Report to Mayor. 

8. Mayor to convene Council. 
4. Speed and penalty. 


Notices to be posted. 
Penalty. 

Repealing clause. 
When to take effect. 


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The City of Holland Ordains 


Sec. 1. The Street Commissioner shall examine from time 
to time, at least once in every month, the Bridge running over 
Black River, at the north end of River street, and keep so much of 
the same in good repair as lies south of the centre of the channel 
of Black River; Provided, the expense of such repair at any one 
time shall not exceed ten dollars; and shall report monthly to the 
Common Council all expenses made by him under the provisions of 
this section. 


Sec. 2. In case the estimate of any repair on said bridge, at 
any one time, shall exceed ten dollars, the Street Commissioner 
shall forthwith notify the Mayor of the City, leaving in his office 
a statement, containing the damage, the nature and cause of the 
same, if known, together with an estimate of the probable expense 
ot the repair. 


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Sec. 3. Upon the Mayor receiving the statement mentioned 
in section two, he shall forthwith call a meeting of the Common 
Council, whose duty it shall be to give the said Street Commission- 
er such instructions and take such other measuyes as the case may 
demand. 

Sec. 4. Any person, riding or driving over the aforesaid 
bridge faster than on a walk, shall for each offense pay a fine of 
five dollars and costs of suit. 


Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner, to 
post notices to all whom it may concern, one notice to be posted 
near the channel of the river on the bridge, and one at the south 
end of the bridge in a durable and conspicuous manner with the 
following letters thereon in large characters: “Five dollars fine for 
riding or driving on this bridge faster than a walk.” 


Sec. 6. If any person, convicted for any violation of any 
provision or requirement of this ordinance, shall fail to pay the 
fine or penalty imposed, together with the costs of suit, the offender 
may be sentenced to be imprisoned in the County Jail of Ottawa 
County, or in the City Jail, until the payment of such yenalty 
or fine, and costs, for a term not exceeding three months. 


Sec. 7. An ordinance entitled An Ordinance Relative to the 
Bridge Over Black River,” passed August 20th, 1869, is hereby re- 
vealed. 


Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days aster 
its passage. 


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No. 118 
AN ORDINANCE 


Establishing a Pound and Fixing Penalties for Rescuing Ani- 
mals Therefrom, or Injuring or Damaging the Same. 
Passed April 6, 1886. Approved April 7, 1886. 


Sec. Sec, 
1. Pound. 4. Repealing clause. 


2. Injuring, or rescuing from 5. When to take effect, 
3. Penalty. : 


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The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. There shall be established and maintained by the 
Common Council, a Public Pound at such place in the City of 
Holland as may be designated by said Council, for the purpose of 
impounding, keeping and restraining beasts, geese and other fowls 
that may be found running at large in any of the streets, lanes, 


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alleys’ parks or other public’ places; or trespassing’ upon the lots, 
yards or lands’ of persons within the City limits, contrary to any 
erdinance of the City. 


Sec. 2. Any person forcing open, forcibly entering, injuring 
er destroying the building, enclosure, shed or fence, used and 
established as a pound, as provided in section one of this ordin- 
ance; or rescuing any beast or fowl impounded therein, shall for 
each offense pay a penalty of not less than five nor more than fiity 
dollars; upon conviction thereof, together with all costs of suit. 


Sec. 8. If any person, convicted for any violation of any 
provision or requirement of this ordinance, shall fail to pay the 
penalty imposed, together with the costs of suit, the offender may 
be sentenced to be imprisoned in the County Jail of Ottawa County 
until the payment of such penalty and costs, for a term not exceed- 
ing three months. 


Sec. 4. An ordinance, entitled “An Ordinance to Prevent the 
Running at Large of Animals, and Establishing a Pound,” passed 
August 20th 1869, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 119 


AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to City Weigh Masters. 
Passed April 6, 1886. Approved April 7, 1886. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. License. 

2. Terms of License. 

3. Compensation. 

4, Certificate of Weight. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Register. 
Imprisonment. 
Repealing Clause. 
When to take effect. 


PASM 


Sec. 1. No person shall build in any street, avenue, alley, or 
lane of said: City, any scale for the purpose of weighing hay or 
other articles of merchandise, for pay, without being first permit- 
ted so to do, by the Common Council, under the penalty of twenty- 
five dollars. 


Sec. 2. The Common Council may, upon application of aay 
suitable person or persons, authorize him or them to use a portion 
of such street, avenue, lane or alley as shall be designated or 
agreed upon between the parties for the purpose of building hay 


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scales (so-called), and such permission shall run one year and be 
signed by the Mayor and Clerk of the city and have the City Seal 
attached thereto, and for such permission the applicant shall pay 
the sum of ten dollars per year, and be designated a City Weigh- 
master. 


Sec. 3. Every person, holding a permit as aforesaid, shall 
receive for each load of hay or straw, or for each load of any other 
merchandise when weighed in bulk, and not exceeding in weight 
four hundred povnds, the sum of ten cents, and twenty cents for 
each such loads when they may exceed four hundred pounds, the 
weight of wagon and tackle included; and for the weighing of 
horses and cattle or other stock the same fees, said stock to be 
weighed in bulk. 


Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of such Weighmaster well and 
truly to weigh any cart, wagon, or sled load of hay or straw when 
applied to by any person desiring the same, and to make such de- 
duction from the weight of said hay or straw as to him may seem 
reasonable and just, by reason of the same being wet or damp, or 
not well cured, and if said hay or straw is to be sold in the streets 
of said City, he shall deliver to the owner or driver of the same 
a certificate of the weight; and when the owner or driver shall dis- 
pose of said hay, he shall in every case deliver said certificate to 
the purchaser, or be liable to a penalty of five dollars for not so 
doing. 


Sec. 5. Each City Weighmaster shall keep a register of all 
articles weighed that are intended to be sold in the public streets 
in bulk, designating the same by the name of the owner or driver, 
and the article or articles, whether of animals, hay or straw, with 
the exact weight of the same, and shall give a certicfiate of said 
weight; which shall in all cases be given up to the purchaser, and 
the register shall be always open to the inspection of the public. 


Sec. 6 If any person, convicted for any violation of any 
provisions or requirements of this ordinance, shall fail to pay the 
fine or penalty imposed, together with costs of suit, the offender 
may be sentenced to be imprisoned in the county jail of Ottawa 
County, or the ciy jail, until the payment of such fine or penalty 
and costs, for a term not exceeding three months. 


Sec. 7. An ordinance entitled ‘“‘An Ordinance Relative to 
City Weighmasters,’’ passed August 20th, 1869, is hereby repealed. 


Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 125 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Pawnbrokers. 
Passed June 1, 1886. Approved June 2, 1886. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. License. 8. Book open to inspection. 
2. Application. 9. Sale by auction. 

3. Bond. 10. Goods of minors and 
4. Terms of licenSe. drunkards. 

5. Limitation of license. 11. Penalty. 

6. Record. 12. When to take effect. 


7. Receipt. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall engage in the business of pawn-brok- 
ing in the City of Holland without first obtaining a license tnere- 
for from the Common Council of said city. 


Sec. 2. Every person, firm or corporation desiring to engage 
in the business of pawn broking in said city, shall make application 
therefor, in writing, to the common council of said city. Such ap- 
plication shall be signed by the applicant, and shall specify the 
street and building in which the business is to be carried on; and 
in case of a firm or corporation, such application shall set forth 
the names of all parties constituting such firm or corporation. 
Such application shall also designate the persons proposed as 
sureties On the bond as hereinafter provided, and shall be accom- 
panied with a recommendation signed by at least three reputable 
citizens, showing that the applicant is well known to them and is 
of good reputation.. (As amended by Ordinance No. 245. <Ap- 
proved Feb. 21, 1907.) 


Sec. 3. After the granting of such application by the common 
council, and before a license shall be issued, the applicant shall 
execute a bond to the City of Holland, in the penal sum of one 
thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the 
common council, conditioned that he shall in all respects, faith- 
fully comply with and observe all the rules, regulations and ordi- 
nances imposed by the city, and all requirements of the charter of 
said city, relating to pawn-broking; such applicant shall also, be- 
fore such license shall be issued, pay into the city treasury, the 
sum of fifty dollars per annum, as a license fee to engage in such 
business or occupation, and shall file the city treasurer’s receipt 
therefor with the city clerk. Every license granted under the 
terms of this ordinance, may for any non-compliane with the terms 
and conditions upon which it was granted, or on account of any 


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violations of any of the provisions thereof, or of any ordinance 
of the city of Holland in the discretion of the common council 
be revoked by them, and any person, firm or corporation, hold- 
ing such license, shall in addition to any and all other penalties 
thereupon imposed, thereupon forfeit all payments made for 
such license. (As amended by Ordinance No. 245. Approved 
Feb. 21, 1907.) 


Sec. 4. Upon the presentation to the city clerk, of the bond 
herein provided for, duly executed and approved by the common 
council, with the receipt of the city treasurer for said license fee, 
the city clerk shall issue to such applicant or applicants a license 
under the seal of the city. (As amended by Ordinance No. 2465. 
Approved Feb. 21, 1907.) 


Sec. 56. No person cr persons, licensed as a pawn-broker, 
under this ordinance shall, by virtue of one license keep more than 
one house, shop or place within said city for taking goods in pawn. 
Provided, however, That such person or persons may remove from 
one place to another, in said city, by giving immediate written 
notice of such removal to said Common Council, which notice shall 
state, aS near as may be, the building and the street to which the 
removal is made. 


Sec. 6. Every person, firm or corporation, licensed to carry 
on said business in said city, shall keep a book in which shall be 
legibly written at the time of such loan, an accurate description, 
for the purpose of identification of the goods, articles or things 
pawned; the date and hour of pawning the same, the amount of 
money loaned thereon, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, 
the time within which such pawn is to be redeemed, the name, aga, 
and residence of the person pawning such goods, articles or thing; 
and wlien any watch is pawned with any pawnbroker, he shall write 
in such book the name of the maker thereof and its number; and 
when any jewelry, or gold or silver articles of any kind are pawa- 
ed, he shall note in said book, letters or marks inscribed, en- 
graved or cut thereon; and whenever any goods, article or thing 
of any kind shall be sold at auction, as hereinafter provided, the 
date of such sale, and the amount for which the same was sold, 
shall be entered upon said book. All entries in said book shal] be 
fully written in the English language, and made with ink. (As 
amended by Ordinance No. 245. Approved Feb. 21, 1907.) 


Sec. 7. Every pawn-broker at the time of making any loan, 
and receiving any goods, article or thing in pawn therefor, shall 
make and deliver to the person from whom it was received, a 
receipt, signed by him or them in person, or in the name of the 
firm, containing the amount and date of such loan, the rate of in- 
terest to be paid thereon, the time within which such goods, 
articles or things shall be redeemed, with such a description of 
the same as is provided for in the preceding section. 


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Sec. 8. The book provided for in section six of this ordinance 
shall be at all times open to the inspection of the mayor and of 
each and every member of the common council, any member of the 
police department, or the city attorney of said city. (As amended 
by Ordinance No. 245. Approved Feb. 21, 1907. 


Sec. 9. No pawn-broker shall sell any goods, article, or thing, 
which may have been left in pawn, until the same shall have re- 
mained in his, her or their possession at least three months beyoud 
the time in which the same was to have been redeemed; and the 
sale of the same shall be at public auction, after notice of such 
proposed sale shall have been advertised for at least two weeks 
in two of the newspapers published in said city, and such auction 
sale shall be made personally by a licensed auctioneer of said city, 
and not otherwise. The surplus money arising from said: sale, 
after deducting the amount of the loan, interest and charges due 
on the same, and the expense of such sale, shall be paid over by 
such pawn-broker to the person or persons who would have basen 
entitled to redeem such goods, article or thing, if such sale had 
not been made; but if the owner or owners of such surplus money 
shall not demand or receive the same within one month after such 
sale, the same shall then be paid into the City Treasury, subject to 
the demand of its legal owner. Such money shall not be paid to the 
owner by the City Treasurer without an order from the Common 
Council. 


Sec. 10. No pawn-broker shall purchase any goods, article 
or thing offered him, nor receive any goods, article or thing in 
pawn from any minor under the age of sixteen years, without the 
written consent of the parent or guardian of any such minor, or 
from any person who is intoxicated, or from an habitual drunk- 
ard. (As amended by Ordinance No. 245. Approved Feb. 21, 
1907.) 


Sec. 11. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the 
provisions or requirements of this ordinance, on conviction there- 
of, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor 
more than twenty-five dollars and costs of prosecution, or by im- 
prisonment in the city jail or County jail of the County of Ottawa, 
for a period not exceeding thirty days; and in case a fine and coasts 
only shall be imposed the offender may be sentenced to be im- 
prisoned in the city jail, or County jail of the County of Ottawa, 
until the payment of such fine and costs, for a term of not exceed- 


ing thirty days. (As amended by Ordinance No. 245. Approved 
Feb. 21, 1907.) 


Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 126 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Running at Large Within the Limits of the City 
of Holland, of Horses, Sheep, Swine, Mules, Goats, Cattle 
and Beasts, Geese and Other Fowls, and the Appoint- 
ment and Duties of a Poundmaster. 


Passed June 1, 1886. Approved June 2, 1886. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Running at large of ani- 6. Return of money. 
mals and fowls. 7. Record and report. 
2. Poundmaster. 8. Not to hinder impound- 
8. Duties of Poundmaster, ing. 
etc. 9. Who may impound. 
4. Posting notices, penalty 10. Penalty clause, 
and fees, 11. Repealing clause. 
5. Sale and deposit of money 12. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. It shall not be lawful for any horse, sheep, swine, 
goat, cattle or beast, geese or any other fowl, to run, or be at large 
in the public streets, lanes, parks, alleys, vacant lots, or other 
open or public place or places, within the limits of the City of 
Holland, except when in charge of a competent herdsman. 


Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Common Council. of said 
city to appoint some suitable person as Poundmaster of the City 
of Holland. 


Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Poundmaster, the Chief 
of Police and members of the police force of the city, to take into 
custody, distrain and impound in the public pound, established by 
the Common Council, any animal, beast or fowl, mentioned in the 
first section of this ordinance, that may be found in the streets, 
parks, alleys, lanes, vacant lots, or other open or public place, or 
places, within the limits of the City of Holland, contrary to the pro- 
visions of this ordinance, and not under the immediate care and 
control of a competent herdsman. (As amended by Ordinance No. 
243. Approved Feb. 7, 1907. 


Sec. 4. ‘When any animal, beast, or fowl, mentioned in sec- — 
tion one of this ordinance, shall have been impounded, in accord- 
ance with the provisions of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of 
the Poundmaster to give notice to the owner thereof (if known) 
that such animal, beast, or fowl, is impounded. If the owner 
thereof is not known, the Poundmaster shall forthwith give three 
days’ public notices of such impounding by posting notices in five 


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conspicuous places within the city, one of which places shall be 
the Post Office. Such notices shall contain a description of the 
animal, beast or fowl impounded. No animal so impounded, except 
geese and fowls, shall be released from the pound, until the own- 
er, or the person entitled to the possession thereof, shall pay to the 
Poundmaster the sum of fifty cents for taking uy and impounding, 
and fifty cents per day for each day, or part of a day, the same 
shall be kept by the Poundmaster, and if notices have been posted, 
as herein required, the further sum of one dollar for posting such 
notices; and no geese or other fowls impounded, shall be released 
until the owner or person entitled to the possession of the same 
shall have paid ten cents for each goose or other fowl taken up and 
impounded and the further sum of ten cents for each day, or part 
of a day, the same is kept, and if notices have been posted the 
further sum of fifty cents for posting such notices. The Pound 
master shall pay the sum herein provided for taking up and im- 
pounding each animal, beast, and fowl to the person taking up and 
delivering the same into the pound. It shall be the duty of the 
Poundmaster to furnish sufficient food and drink to all animals 
impounded. 


Sec. 5. In case the owner or person entitled to the possession 
of such animals, beast, or fowl, shall not within five days from the 
time of so taking into custody pay the aforesaid charges and take 
away such animal, beast, or fowl, it shall be the duty of the Pound- 
master to sell the same at public auction, after giving five day3’ 
public notice of such sale, by posting the same up, in at least five 
public places in the City of Holland, one of which shall be the 
Post Office. Such Poundmaster shall be entitled to the sum of 
One Dollar for posting said notices of sale, and the further sum of 
fifty cents for each animal or beast, other than a goose or other 
fowl sold, and the sum of ten cents for each goose and other fowl 
sold. After deducting all expenses and charges of impounding and 
sale, the Poundmaster shall deposit the balance of the money re- 
ceived from such sale with the Treasurer of the City of Holland, 
and shall take a receipt therefor. 


Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Common Council of the 
city, upon sufficient proof of the ownership of any animal, beast, 
or fowl sold under the provisions of this ordinance, to direct the 
City Treasurer to pay such owner the balance of the money deposit- 
ed with said Treasurer by the Poundmaster after the sale. 


Sec. 7. The said Poundmaster shall keep a book, in which he 
shall enter as minutely as possible, a full description of any 
animal, beast, or fowl, impounded under the provisions of this 
ordinance, the locality from which it was taken, the name of the 
owner when known, or when ascertained, and the day and hour 
when impounded; keeping in said book an accurate account and 


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record of all his doings and proceeding in the premises. At the 
end of every three months, and oftener if required by the Council, 
it shall be the duty of said Poundmaster to make a full report to 
the Common Council of said city, of all his do'ngs, and of all moneys by him 
collected under the provisions of this ordinance, and the receipts taken from 
the Treasurer shall accompany such report. 


Sec. 8. No person shall hinder, obstruct or delay the Pound- 
master, Chief of Police, members of the police force, or any other 
person in taking into custody any animal, beast, or fowl found 
Tunning at large contrary to the provisions of this ordinance. (As 
amended by Ordinance No. 243. Approved Feb. 7, 1907. 


Sec. 9. It shall be lawful for any person to drive to the 
pound, and deliver into the possession of the Poundmaster, or put 
into the pound, any animal, beast, or fowl running at large within 
the limits of the City of Holland, contrary to the provisions of this 
ordinance. 


Sec. 10. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
or requirements of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall be 
punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, and costs 
of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail or County jail of 
the County of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding ninety days; and 
in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed the offender may be 
sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail, or County jail of the 
County of Ottawa, until the payment of such fine and costs, for a 
term of not exceeding ninety days. (As amended by Ordinance 
No. 243. Approved Feb. 7, 1907.) 


Sec. 11. An ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Relative to 
the Running at Large Within the City Limits of the City of Hol- 
land, of Cows and Other Horned Animals,’ passed June 20, 1876, 
and approved June 24, 1876; and an ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordi- 
nance Relating to the Running at Large Within the Limits of the 
City of Holland, Michigan, of Horses, Sheep, Swine, Mules, Covs 
and Horned Cattle of Every Kind and Description,’’ passed July 
5, 1882, and approved July 6, 1882, are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 124 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Peddling Meat, Fish, or Dressed Poultry in the 
City of Holland. 


Passed December 7, 1886. Approved December 8, 1886. 


Sec Sec 

1. Peddling meat, fish, or 4. Term of license. 
dressed poultry. 5. Penalty. 

2. License. 6. Repealing claneée. 


3. Cost of license. 7 When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall peddle meat, fish, or dressed poultry 
in the streets, or from house to house, in the City of Holland, 
without first having obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter 
provided. 


Sec. 2. Every person desiring to obtain a license to peddle 
meat, fish, or dressed poultry in the streets, or from house to 
house, within said city, shall make a written application therefor 
to the Clerk or the Marshal of the City of Holland. Such applicant 
shall also, before receiving a license, pay to said Clerk or the Marshal 
the sum of money hereinafter provided. Upon the filing of such 
application and the payment of such money, the City Clerk shall 
issue the necessary license under the seal of the city. Each license 
shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Clerk. 


Sec. 3. The cost of a license required under this ordinance 
shall be as follows: To peddle meat or dressed poultry, for one 
day Two Dollars; one week Five Dollars; one month Fifteen wol- 
lars; three months Forty Dollars; six months Seventy five Dollars: 
and one year One Hundred Dollars; and to peddle fish for six 
months or less Five Dollars; and for one year Ten Dollars. (As 
amended by Ordinance No. 237. Approved April 12, 1906.) 


Sec. 4. No license shall be granted under the provisions of 
this ordinance for any term beyond the first Monday of June next 
thereafter. In case an application is made for an annual license, 
and less time than one year and more than six months intervenes 
between the date of the application and the first Monday of June 
next ensuing, such license shall be paid for at the yearly rate in 
proportion to the time thus intervening, nor shall any license be 
transferable. 


Sec. 5. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the 
provisions or requirements of this ordinance upon conviction there- 
of shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and cvusts 


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of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail 
of the County of Ottawa, in the discretion of the court or magist- 
rate before whom the conviction may be had, for a period not ex- 
ceeding thirty days; and in case such court or magistrate shall only 
impose a fine and costs, the offender may be sentenced to be in- 
prisoned in the city jail, or coynty jail of the County of Ottawa, 
until the payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding 
thirty days. 


Sec. 6. An ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Providing for 
a License for the Vending or Peddling of Meat, Meats, or Dressed 
Poultry, in the City of Holland,’ passed November 16th, A. D. 
1881, and approved November 17th 1881, is hereby repealed. 


Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 135 
AN ORDINANCE 
Relative to Slaughter Houses and Butchers. 


Passed December 14, 1886. Approved December 15, 1886. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Slaughter houses’ and 8. Oleanliness. 
license. 4. Penalty. 

2. Sale of unwholesome 5. Repealing clause. 
meat, 6. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall keep a slaughter house, or carry on 
the business of butchering, in any place in the City of Holland, 
except at such place or places as shall be designated by the Board 
of Health or the Common Council of said city. 


Sec. 2. No person shall expose for sale, in any market house, 
or elsewhere in said city, any unwholesome, stale, emaciated, 
brown, stuffed, tainted, putrid or measly meat, poultry or other 
provisions. And any such meat, poultry, or other provisions, so exposed for 
sale, may be seized by the Board of Health and destroyed. 


Sec. 3. Every butcher and market man shall keep the inside 
of the lockers, and all tables, counters, blocks, scales and tools in 
his market house and place where his meats, fish and other pro- 
visions are kept, the floor and all other parts of his market, clean 
and free from all filth and dirt. 


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Sec. 4. Any person who skall violate any of the provisions or 
requirements of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, and costs of 
prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail or County jail of 
the County of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding ninety days; and 
in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed the offender may be 
sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail, or County jail of the 
County of Ottawa, until the payment of such fine and costs, for a term of not 
exceeding ninety days. (As amended by Ordinance No. 241. <Ap- 


proved Jan. 17, 1907.) 


Sec. 5. An ordinance entitled ‘An Ordinance Relative to 
Slaughter Houses and Butchers,’ passed August 20th, 1869, is 
hereby repealed. 


Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 136 
AN ORDINANCE 


Creating the Office of Health Officer and Prescribing His Pow- 
ers and Duties. 
Passed December 21, 1886. Approved December 22, 1886. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Establishing the office of4. Compensation of. 
Health Officer. 5. Repealing clause. 
2. How appointed. 6. When to take effect. 


3. Duties of. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. That the office of Health Officer of the City of Hol- 
land be and the same is hereby created and established. 


Sec. 2. The Health Officer shall be appointed by the Com- 
mon Council at the time and in the manner provided by the City 
Charter for the appointment of officers. Such Health Officer shall 
be a practicing physician, having a diploma or certificate from 
some well accredited medical college. He shall be a resident of 
the city and shall hold his office for the term of one year or until 
his successor is appointed and qualified. Provided, however, that 
the present incumbent shall hold said office until the expiration of 
the time for which he was appointed. 


Sec. 3. The Health Officer shall be the sanitary adviser and 
executive officer of the Board of Health; and he shall exercise 
the powers, and perform the duties conferred upon and required 


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of health officers, by the general laws of the state, and shall per- 
form all the duties that may be required of him by the ordinances 
of the city, and the resolutions, orders, and health regulations, of 
the Common Council and the Board of Health. 


Sec. 4. The compensation of the Health Officer shall be fixed 
annually by the Common Council. 


Sec. 6. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Relative to 
the Office of Health Officer,’’ passed March 24, 1877, and approved 
March 26, 1877, is hereby repealed. 


Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take immediate effect. 


No. 143 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Protection of the Public Property of the City 
of Holland. 


Passed February 23, 1887. Approved February 24, 1887. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Injury to buildings, etc. streets. 

2. Not to interfere with hy- 4 Tying horses to shade 
drants, etc. trees, etc. 

2. a. Not to leave caps re- 5. Electric fire alarm. 
moved. 6. Penalty. 


When to take effect. 


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3. Marks at intersection of 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall mutilate, mar, or in any manner in- 
jure any fire engine house or other buildings belonging to the 
City of Holland, or any stand pipe, water pipe, well, hydrant, fire 
engine, fire apparatus, pole, wire, cable, anchor, lamp, lamp post, 
sewer, drain, tank, public pound or any other public property in 
said city. (As amended by Ordinance No. 242. Approved Jan. 
Lis h9072) 


Sec. 2. No person shall open, tamper with, or in any man- 
ner interfere with any gate box, valve, pipe, meter, or fire hydrant, 
belonging to the system of water works of said city, or with any 
wire, pole, transformer, meter, or any other apparatus or equip- 
ment belonging to the electricity plant of said city, or with any 
sewer, drain, catch basin, man-hole, receiving tank, or any other 
property belonging to the sewer system of said city, without auth- 
ority from the Common Council, Mayor, Board of Puplic Works 
or other authorized agent of the City of Holand, (As amended by 
Ordinance No. 242. Approved Jan. 17, 1907.) 


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Sec. 2. a. No person shall remove any cap from any fire hydrant 
in the city of Holland, unless express permission is given therefor 
by the Board of Public Works of the City of Holland, and no pers 
son who may be permitted to remove such cap from any fire 
hydrant shall leave the same without replacing such cap under the 
penalty in this ordinance provided. (Amended by Ordinance No. 
291. Approved July 16, 1913.) 


Sec. 3. No person shall remove, destroy, or in any manner in- 
terfere with the stakes, stones, or other marks heretofore or here- 
atter placed at any street intersection by the proper authorities of 
the City of Holland; nor shall any person remove, destroy or in 
any manner interfere with any grade stakes, or other marks placed 
in any street by or under the direction of the City Engineer. (AS 
amended by Ordinance No. 242. Aproved Jan. 17, 1907.) 


Sec. 4. No person shall tie, or cause to be tied any horse, or 
other animal, to any shade or ornamental tree, standing in any pub- 
lic street or other public place in said city, nor to any lamp post, 
pole or hydrant belonging to said city. (As amended by Ordinance 
No. 242. Approved Jan. 17, 1907.) 


Sec. 5 No person shall use the electric fire alarm to com- 
municate a false alarm of fire; nor shall any person not specially 
authorized thereto, tamper with, or in any manner interfere with, 
handle, or use said electric fire alarm, except for communicating 
an actual alarm of fire. Nor shall any person cut, mutilate, mar, 
deface, cover, obstruet, or in any manner whatever interfere with 
the wire of said electric fire alarm. 


Sec. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions or 
requirements of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, and costs of 
prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail, or County jail of 
the County of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding ninety days; and 
in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be 
sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail or County jail for the 
County of Ottawa, until the payment of such fine and costs for a 
term not exceeding ninety days. (As amended by Ordinance No. 
242. Approved Jan. 17, 1907.) 


Sec. 7, This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage, 


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No. 150 


AN ORDINANCE 


To License and Regulate Vehicles of Every Kind, Used for the 
Transportation of Persons for Hire in the City of Holland. 


Passed September 4, 1888. Approved September 5, 1888. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. License for hack, etc. 5. Name of owner, etc., at- 
2. Amount of license. tached to vehicle, 

3. Sale, 6. Penalty. 

4. Charges. 7. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person or persons shall use or cause to be used 
or kept on the streets of the City of Holland, any hack, or other 
vehicle, for the transportation of persons for hire, without having 
first obtained a license therefor from the Clerk of the City, but 
10 such license shall extend beyond the first Monday of June next 
thereafter and no person or persons shall use by agency or other- 
wise more than one such vehicle by authority of any one license so 
granted. (As amended by Ordinance No. 244. Approved Feb. 
breLOUte) 


Sec. 2. Before any license shall be issued as hereinbefore 
provided, for the transportation of persons for hire in said city, 
the person or persons applying for the same shall pay into the City 
Treasury the sum of Five Dollars. Provided, however, That the 
Common Council, when they shall deem it expedient, may reduce 
the sum of money required to be paid by the provisions of this or- 
dinance, if said license is issued for the period of one week or 
less. (As amended by Ordinance No. 244. Approved Feb. 7, 
1907). 


Sec. 3. If the licensed owner of any such vehicle shall sell or 
dispose of such vehicle before the expiration of his license, he shall 
within ten days after such sale report the same to the City Clerk. 
(As amended by Ordinance No. 244. Approved Feb. 7, 1907.) 


Sec. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person owning or driv- 
ing any such vehicle to charge any person conveyed in such vehicle 
from any point within the city limits of the City of Holland to any 
place within said city limits any larger sum than twenty-five cents. 


Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of every person owning any such 
vehicle to have conspicuously attached thereto or displayed upon 
the same the name of the owner of said vehicle and the number of 
the license. 


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Sec. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
requirements of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, and costs of 
prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail, or County jail of 
the County of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding ninety days; and 
in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be 
sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail or County jail for the 
County of Ottawa, until the payment of such fine and costs for a 
term not exceeding ninety days. (As amended by Ordinance No, 
244, Approved Feb. 7, 1907.) 


Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 164 
AN ORDINANCE 


To Regulate the Speed for Engines and Cars on Railroad 
Tracks Within the Limits of the City of Holland, and 
Fixing a Penalty for Violations Thereof. 

Passed August 1, 1893. Approved August 3, 1893. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Speed of cars, etc. 2. Penalty. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. The rate of speed for engines and cars on all railroad 
tracks within the limits of the City of Holland shall not exceed 
six miles per hour; and no person shall cause any engine, car or 
train of cars to run or pass over any railroad track within said 
City of Holland at a greater rate of speed than six miles per hour. 


Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
or requirements of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) 
and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail of 
the County of Ottawa, in the discretion of the court or magistrate 


before whom the conviction may be had, for a period not exceed- — 


ing thirty days; and in case such court or magistrate shall only im- 
pose a fine and costs, the offender may be sentenced to imprison- 
ment in said county jail of the County of Ottawa until the payment 
of such fine and costs, for a period not exceeding thirty days. 


Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 172 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Use of Bicycles, Velocipides, and Other Similar 
Vehicles, Within the City of Holland. 


Passed August 19, 1896. Approved August 19, 1896. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Bicycles. 4. Bell or gong. 
2. Bicycles not allowed on 4 a. Lamps. 
sidewalk. 5. Right of way. 
8. Speed. 6. GlasS, tacks, etc. 
7, Penalty. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall ride any bicycle in any of the public 
parks, or on any sidewalk within the limits of the City of Hol- 
land. 


Sec. 2. No person shall ride any tricycle, velocipede, or other 
similar vehicle, on the sidewalks of Highth or River streets in said 
city. Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall 
not apply to cripples and persons using such vehicles by reason of 
their inability to walk. 


Sec. 3. No person shail ride and bicycle, velocipede, or other 
similar vehicle, on Highth or River streets in said city, at a speed 
greater than twelve miles an hour. 


Sec. 4. No person shall ride, use or propel any bicycle on any 
of the streets or avenues of said city, unless such bicycle has at- 
tached thereto a bicycle bell or gong, of the size and kind usually 
affixed to bicycles, which bell shall be rung not more than fifty 
feet nor less than thirty feet before crossing any crosswalk and be 
fore entering upon any cross street or way in said city. Provided, 
however, That it shall not be necessary to ring such bell as here- 
inbefore directed, unless at the time of the approach of such 
vehicle, one or more persons are standing, walking, riding or mov- 
ing upon the sidewalk, crosswalk or streets of said city within 
fifty feet of any crosswalk at such street crossings. 


Sec. 4 a. Every bicycle used upon any of the public streets, avenues, 
alleys, or public places, during the period of one hour after sunset to one hour 
before sunrise, shall display one lighted lamp, such light tobe placed on the 
front of the bicycle, so that it shall be visible one hundred feet in the direction 
in which it is proceeding; Provided, that it shall at no time be necessary to 
display said light before the hour of six thirty (6:30) in the afternoon, Stand- 
ard Time, if the time herein limited would otherwise be earlier for displaying 
such light. (As amended by Ordinance No. 297, approved January 21, 1914, ) 


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See. 6. it shall be the duty of every person riding any vehi- 
cle mentioned in this ordinance, when meeting, overtaking or pass- 
ing any other person, or vehicle, to keep to the right, and in all 
respects obey the laws of the road. 


Sec. 6. It shall not be lawful for any person to throw, scat- 
ter, sweep, deposit or place on any street or avenue within the city 
any glass, tacks, crockery, scrap iron, nails, tin, wire, ashes or 
other thing or substance liable to cause punctuye in the tires of any 
vehicle mentioned in this ordinance, or that would interfere with 
the use thereof. 


Sec. 7. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
ef this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine of not exceeding twenty-five dollars and costs of prosecution, 
or by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of the County 
of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding thirty days; and in case a 
fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced 
to be imprisoned in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County 


until the payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding 
thirty days. 


Sec. 8. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Relative to 
Coasting, Skating, the Use of Velocipedes, Bicycles and Tricycles, 
on the Sidewalks of Eighth and River Streets, and to Prohibit Certain Prac- 
tices and Amusements on the Streets of the City of Holland,’ passed Decem- 
ber 14, 1886, and approved December 15, 1886, is hereby repealed. 


Sec. 9. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 174 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Numbering Buildings. 
Passed November 17, 1896. Approved November 18, 1896. 


sec. Sec. 

1. Numbering districts. 5. Duty of Marshal. 

2. Twenty-two feet per num- 6. Compensation for number: 
ber. ing. 

3. Size of numbers. 7. Penalty. 


4. Appointment of numberer. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. All buildings fronting on any street or avenue within 
the city shall be numbered except as herein otherwise provided, 
and such numbering shall be in accordance with the following plan 


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and system, as follows: ‘That the city for numbering purposes be 
and is hereby divided into two districts, making Market street a 
dividing line, and numbering east and west from that street; that 
the numbering on the streets running north and south and northerly 
and southerly, commence on the North Section Line of Sections 
twenty-nine and thirty, Township five north of Range fifteen west, 
and running thence south to Thirty-second street; that a number 
be assigned to every twenty-two feet frontage on all streets, both 
those running north and south and those running east and west, 
and that the odd numbers be given to the north and east sides of 
the streets and the even numbers to the south and west sides of the 
streets. Provided, That the Common Council may at any time by 
resolution exempt from the provisions of this ordinance such por- 
tions of the city for such time as they may deem proper. 


Sec. 2. A number shall be reserved and allowed for every 
twenty-two feet of any vacant or upplatted lot or parcel of land 
fronting or facing on any street or avenue within the city. 


Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or occupant 
of any building to affix or inscribe the proper number or numbers 
according to the plan set forth, in section one of this ordinance, in 
plain and legible figures, at least one and one-half inches in length, 
in a conspicuous place in front of such building. 


Sec. 4. The Common Council may designate and appoint 
some competent person or persons to affix numbers as hereinafter 
provided, in accordance with the plan set forth in section one of 
this ordinance, on all buildings, as aforesaid, in case the owner, 
occupant or agent in any capacity of any such building, shall neg- 
lect or refuse to affix or inscribe the proper number or numbers 
t» such buildings after being duly notified as hereinafter provid- 
ed. 


Sec. 5. Whenever any building as aforesaid, shall be without 
number or numbers, or shall have the wrong number affixed or in- 
scribed, it shall be the duty of the City Marshal or any member ui 
the police force to serve or cause to be served on the owner, agent 
or occupant as aforesaid, a written or printed notice, notifying such 
owner, agent or occupant to affix or inscribe within ten days from the 
date of service of such notice on the building owned or occupied by 
him or her or for which he or she may be the agent in any capacity, 
the proper number or numbers as designated in such notice, and it 
shall be the duty of such owner, agent or occupant, to affix or in- 
scribe the number or numbers in plain and legible figures in a 
conspicuous place on the front of such building. Such notice shall 
be served personally on such owner, agent or occupant, by leaving 
the same at the residence of such owner, agent or occupant, or in 
case the same be unoccupied, by posting such notice in some con- 


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spicuous place on the premises. The officer serving such notice 
shall report in writing once in each week to the City Clerk any 
neglect or refusal on the part of the persons so notified to comply 
with the provisions of this ordinance. 


Sec. 6. In case of neglect or refusal to affix or inscribe the 
number or numbers so designated within the time limited in said 
notice, the person or persons so appointed by the Common Council 
shall affix such number or numbers and receive therefor such 
compensation as the Common Council may prescribe. 


Sec. 7. Any owner, agent or occupant of any building, as 
aforesaid, who shall refuse or neglect to affix or inscribe the number 
or numbers thereon within ten days after being duly notified to 
affix the proper number or numbers, as above provided, or who 
shall refuse to have his or her building numbered by the person 
appointed by the Council as aforesaid, shall for every such offense, 
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not exceeding five 
dollars, and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city 
jail, or county jail of the County of Ottawa, for a period not ex- 
ceeding ten days; and in case a fine and costs only shall be impos- 
ed, the offender may be sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail 
or county jail of Ottawa County, until the payment of such fine and 
costs, for a term not exceeding thirty days. 


Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 178 
AN=ORDINANCE 


Prohibiting the Riding and Driving of Horses and Other Ani- 
mals Upon the Sidewalk, Regulating the Use and Speed 
Thereof Upon the Streets, and Providing for 
the Hitching and the Placing of the Same. 


Passed January 19, 1897. Approved January 20, 1897. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Speed of horses. 4. Hitching to trees forbid- 
2. Horses, etc., on crosswalks den. 

and sidewalks. 5. Penalty. 


8. Hitching of horses, etc. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall race horses, nor ride or drive any 
team, horse, or other animal, through any of the streets or alleys, 
or over or across any bridge in the city, at a faster rate of speed 
than eight miles per hour. 


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Sec. 2. No person shail halt any horse or other animal, or 
any wagon, carriage, sleigh or other vehicle, on any cross-walk; nor 
shall any person drive or lead any horse, mule, cow, or other ani- 
mal on any sidewalk in the city, except in passing into or from 
any lot. 


Sec. 3. No person shall leave any horse, whether attached, to 
any vehicle or not, to stand in any public street, lane, alley, or pub- 
lic space in the city, without being securely tied or hitched, guard- 
ed or held. 


Sec. 4. No person shall fasten any horse or other animal to 
any ornamental or shade tree in any of the streets of the city, or 
to any box or case around such tree, or place such horse or ani- 
mal where he may injure such tree. 


Sec. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a 
fine of not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and costs of prosecution, 
or by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of the County of 
Ottawa, for a period not exceeding thirty days; and in case a fine 
and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced to 
be imprisoned in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa County until 


the payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding thirty 
days. 


Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 179 
AN ORDINANCE 


Regulating and Prohibiting Certain Practices and Amusements 
in the Streets and Upon the Sidewalks of the City. 


Passed February 23, 1897. Approved February 25, 1897. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Coasting on Eighth and 4. Jumping on wagons, etc. 
River streets. 5. Grotesque vehicles and 

2. Throwing snow-balls, etc. signs, 

8. Playing ball. 6. Penalty. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall slide or coast upon a hand-sleigh or 
upon skates upon any of the sidewalks on Highth and: River streets. 
Sec. 2. No person shall on any street or alley, or on any 
public ground or space in the city, throw or hurl at or toward any 
building, or public or private street light, or at or toward any 


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person, animal or thing, any snow ball or mass of snow, piece of 
ice, or any solid substance whatever. 


Sec. 3. The playing or pitching of ball is forbidden on any 
of the streets, alleys, parks or public places of the city, except upon 
such streets, or parts of streets, as may from time to time be 
designated by the City Marshal. 


Sec. 4. No person, except owners, employes and passengers, 


shall climb, jump or step on any wagon, sleigh or other vehicle on 
any of the streets of the city. 


Sec. 5. No person shall use, drive or propel any grotesque or 
strange vehicle, liable to frighten horses, nor drive or cause to be 
driven any vehicle containing or exhibiting strange or grotesque 
signs, displays, contrivances or advertisements, liable to frighten 
horses, upon any of the public streets of the city, without the ex- 
Press privilege in writing from the Mayor of the city, first obtained. 


Sec. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
or this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine of not exceeding twenty-five dollars and costs of prosecution, 
cer by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of the County 
of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding thirty days; and in case a 
fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced 
to be imprisoned in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa County, 
until the payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding 
thirty days. 


Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 182 
AN ORDINANCE 


Granting to Charles M. Humphrey, and to His Assigns, and to 
a Corporation Hereafter to be Organized Under the Pro- 
visions of Chapter Ninety-five of Howell’s Annotated Sta- 
tutes of the State of Michigan, as Amended, and to its 
Successors and Assigns, to which Corporation, when so 
Organized, the said Grantee Shall Assign This Ordinance, 
the Right to Construct, Maintain and Operate Street Rail- 
ways on Certain Streets, Avenues and Public Places in the 
City of Holland, and on Such Other Streets, Avenues and 
Public Places in Said City as May be Hereafter Designated. 


Passed May 4, 1897. Approved May 5, 1897. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Tracks, turn-outs, side 12. Speed of cars, stops, fire 
tracks, etc. alarms, 

2. Route, provisos, Eighth 13. Other railways and routes, 


14. Other grantees. 

15. COmpletion of railway. 
16. Transfer of grant. 

17. Acceptance of franchise. 
18. Business office. 


and River streets. 

3. RailS, grade, etc. 

4. Paving, crosswalks, and 
repairing of streets. 


5. Cleaning of streets, grav- 19. Franchise fee. 
eled streets, and cross- 20. Electric current not to be 
CR i furnished. 

6. Motive power, wires and2t. Failure to perform acts re- 
poles. quired. 

7. Right of way of cars. 22. Forefeiture of franchise. 

8. Moving of buildings, ete. 23. Penalty for not running 

9. Fare, freight, express, etc. cars. 

10. Cars. 24. Liability for damages, 

11. Running of cars. 25. Life of franchise 30 Years. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 

Sec. 1. That consent, permission and authority are hereby 
granted to Charles M. Humphrey, and to his assigns, and to a cor- 
poration hereafter to be organized under the provisions of Chapter 
95 of Howell’s Annotated Statutes of the State of Michigan, as 
amended, and to which corporation, when so organized, and to its 
successors and assigns, the said Charles M. Humphrey shall assign 
this franchise as hereinafter provided, to construct, maintain, use 
and operate single and double track street railways, with all necess- 
ary and convenient turn-outs, turn-tables, side-tracks, switches and 
connections, in and along the streets, avenues, and public places in 


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the City of Holland, as hereinafter provided, and the same to keep 
and maintain, and to operate thereon street railways for and during 
the term hereinafter specified, and in the manner and upon the con- 
dition set forth in this ordinance. Provided, however, That no switch 
es, turn-outs, sidetracks, “Ys’’ or turn-tables shall be constructed 
on any of the streets or avenues of said city without first submit- 
ting the plan, diagram and location thereof to the Common Coun- 
cil of said city for their approval. Permission, however, is hereby 
granted to said grantees, their successors and assigns, to construct 
one switch and one turn-out on Highth street west of River street, 
and on Van Raalte avenue respectively, without first obtaining fur- 
ther permission from said Common Council. (As amended by ordin- 
ance No. 206, approved Dec. 19, 1901.) 


Sec. 2. That the said grantees, their successors and assigns, 
are hereby authorized and given the right to construct, maintain 
and operate single and double track street railways in, upon and 
through the following streets, avenues and public places in the 
City of Holland, to-wit: Commencing on Highth street at the point 
where the Pere Marquette Railway crosses said street, immediately 
east of Land street; thence west on Highth street to River street; 
thence south on River street to Thirteenth street; thence west 
on Thirteenth street to Harrison avenue; thence south on Har- 
rison avenue to Sixteenth street; thence west on Sixteenth street 
to the end of said street; and thence on the north side of the 
highway along the north section line of section thirty-one (31) 
to the end of the highway. Said grantees, their successors 
and assigns, are also authorized to construct, maintain 
and operate a single track street railway in, upon and through 
Highth street west of River street to Lake avenue, and on the 
unnamed street running from the foot of First avenue to the waters 
of Black lake; thence on Lake avenue to the east line of lot seven 
(7), block two (2) of Hope College addition to the City of Holland, 
thence south on Van Raalte avenue from Lake avenue to Thirteenth 
street; also on Harrison avenue, between Thirteenth street and 
Twelfth street; but said grantees, their successors and assigns, 
shall not be required to construct, maintain and operate said street 
railway on that part of Sixteenth street lying west of Ottawa street. 
Provided, That the said grantees, their successors and assigns, shal& 
not interfere with or place their track on Lake avenue west of the 
east line of lot seven, block two, of Hope College addition, in said 
City of Holland. Provided further, That this grant to construct, 
maintain and operate said railway along Highth street, west of 
River street, and along Lake and Van Raalte avenues, shall become 
void unless said part of said railway shall be completed and ready 
for use and operation on or before December 20, A. D. 1902. Pros 
vided further, That if said grantees, their successors and assigns, 
Shall desire to construct a double track street railway on Highth 


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street east of River street, and on River street, between Eighth 
street and Thirteenth street, such double track shall be constructed 
before or at the time that said city paves said Highth and River 
streets and not thereafter. Provided further, That said grantees, 
their successors and assigns, shall build a double track on Hightk 
street east of River street before or at the time said part of said 
street shall be paved, and the city shall then pave between said 
tracks and up to the outside line of each of said tracks, and said 
grantees shall pave between the rails of each of said tracks. The 
grantees shall also have the right to build a “‘Y’” to connect their 
track on Highth street west of River street with their track on 
River street, said ‘‘Y’’ to be constructed in a workmanlike manner, 
and not before May 1, 1902. Said “‘Y” shall not be constructed 
unless the same is paved in a manner and with materials satisfact- 
ory to the City of Holland. The City of Holland shall pave the 
intersections of Eighth and River streets where-said ‘‘Y’”’ is situat- 
ed in the same manner as said “‘Y”’ is to be paved, and the grantees 
shall pave only between the rails of said tracks at the inter-section 
of Eighth and River streets. (As amended by ordinance No. 206, 
approved Dec. 19, 1901.) 


Sec. 3. The railways in said streets shall be laid in the center 
thereof, if a single track; and if a double track, the inside rail of 
each track shall be laid two feet and five inches from the center 
of the street, and the gauge of the tracks shall be four feet and eight 
and one-half inches. All tracks provided for in this ordinance may 
be connected by suitable curves at their intersections. All tracks 
shall be laid and constructed with rails and materials of approved 
style for street railway use, and shall be so laid, and thereafter 
maintained, that the top of the rails thereof shall be level with the 
established grade of the street, or with said grade as it may here- 
after be established, and so as to be of as little impediment as prac: 
ticable to the free and ordinary use of said streets and avenues and 
the passage of wagons, carriages and other vehicles on or across 
said track at any point and in any and all directions. It is further 
provided that the said grantees, their successors and assigns, shail 
bond said street railway by using a Number 0000 copper wire, or 
its equivalent, at each and every joint of rail and maintain such 
wire at all times. (As amended by ordinance No. 188, approved Jan. 
5, 1898.) 


Sec. 4. Whenever the Common Council shall order the grad- 
ing, paving or other improvements of any of the streets over which 
the lines of said railway shall have been constructed, or over which 
permission shall have been granted to construct the same, and such 
permission shall have been accepted, or shall have ordered said 
grading or other improvements, and said work shall not yet have 
been performed, then the said grantees shall, except as hereinbefore 


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provided, pay such proportion of the expense of such grading, pav- 
ing or other improvements as the surface between the rails and 
said tracks of said railway and eight inches on the outside thereof 
shall bear to the entire surface improved, and whenever the city 
constructs cross-walks across any of the streets on which said 
railways are situated, said grantees, their successors and assigns, 
shall at the same time construct, of sych materials and in such 
manner as the Common Council may designate, and of as good 
workmanship, crossings between the rails and tracks and eight 
inches on each side thereof. The said grantees shall have the right 
to pay the cost of such grading, paving or other improvements in 
installments, upon the same terms and conditions as the owners of 
the land abutting on said streets may be required or authorized to 
pay such assessments for grading, paving or other improvements. 
If at any time it becomes necessary for said grantees, their suc- 
cessors and assigns, to relay or repair any of their said tracks, or 
to replace or remove any of their poles, or after any of the said 
streets shall have been paved, graveled or improved, it becomes 
necessary to tear up said pavement, graveling or improvement for 
such purpose, then said grantees, their successors and assigns, shall 
at their own expense and with the least possible delay, repair said 
street or replace said pavement, graveling or improvement, leaving 
said street in as good condition as it was before being so disturbed 
by said grantees, their successors and assigns, and said grantees 
their successors and assigns, shall otherwise and at all 
times, keep the street between the rails and tracks and eight 
inches on each side thereof, in as good condition and repairs as the 
remainder of the street. Provided, also, If at any time it becomes 
necessary to remove or interfere with any of the tracks, poles or 
overhead equipment of said grantees, their successors and assigns, 
or any portion thereof, for the purpose of doing any work on said 
streets required by said city to be done, then said grantees their 
successors and assigns, upon being notified by said city, shall im- 
mediately remove so much of their said tracks, poles and overhead 
equipment as may be necessary for such purpose, and thereafter 
replace the same at their own expense. All such work done or 
authorized to be done by said city shall be done, if possible, so 
as not to suspend the running of cars, but if it becomes necessary 
in doing such work to suspend the running of cars, such work shall 
be done with the least possible delay. (As amended by ordinance 
No. 206, approved Dec. 19, 1901.) 


Sec. 5. The city shall keep the streets and pavements between 
the rails cleaned in the same manner as the remainder of the 
street; but said grantee, its successors and assigns shall remove all 
snow and ice from their tracks at their own expense, and in such 
manner as not to interfere with public travel on such street. When 
ever said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall construct @ 


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double track or switch on any of the graded and graveled streets 
of this city, the said grantees shall widen the graveled road-bed 
of such street on each side from the outer rail thereof to a line four 
feet from the curb or sidewalk line. The gravel used in such wid- 
ening shall be spread an average thickness of nine inches, and be 
of like quality as the gravel already in use on said street, to the 
satisfaction of the Council. The spreading of such gravel, and the 
removal of earth, if such shall be required in order to maintain 
the established grade, shall be done under the supervision of the 
Council, and shall be completed by the said grantees within thirty 
days from and after the time they shall have commenced breaking 
ground for the construction of their track on the street. The said 
grantees shall also construct and at all times keep and maintain 
in good repairs so much of the crosswalks on the streets or parts of 
streets in the city over which the lines of said railway shall be con- 
structed, as shall be occupied by the track and eight inches on the 
outside thereof. Such parts of such crosswalks shall be construct- 
ed of such material and in such manner as the Council shall desig- 
nate and direct. (As amended by ordinance No. 199, Approved May 
25, 1900.) 


Sec. 6. Said street railway and the cars to be used on said 
trar“s may be operated by a system or systems of compressed air, 
or by electric power of either overhead, underground, primary or 
storage battery systems, or by any new and approved method of 
motive power which may hereafter be discovered and become in 
general use by street railways in cities, with the right to use aiy 
one or more of said systems, except steam and animal power, ana 
to change from any one of said systems to any other of said sys: 
tems. If electric power shall be used by means of overhead wires, 
then said grantees, their successors and assigns are hereby author- 
ized to erect and maintain a full electrical overhead equipment, 
with all the necessary poles, arms, feed, trolley and other wires 
necessary for a complete electrical overhead equipment and the 
propulsion of cars, which overhead equipment may be suspended 
from substantial wooden or iron poles, set within the curb limits 
of said streets, on either side thereof, and at such distances from 
cach other as may be deemed advisable or necessary. And permis- 
sion is hereby given to connect said wires and electrical conductors 
with any power house or station, or electrical wires, which may 
be used for generating or conveying the electrical or other power 
for and to the lines of said street railway. Permission is also giv- 
en to construct in the streets of said city proper conduits for con- 
veying the necessary wires or electrical conductors to be used in 
any underground system. Provided, That such conduits are so laid 
and constructed as not to interfere or damage any of the public 
works or improvements in said city now existing or hereafter to 
be construgted. All trolley wires shall be at least eighteen feet 


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above the level of the track, and two guard wires shall be suspend- 
ed just above and on either side of said trolley wire and paralle 
therewith. Provided, however, Said guard wires shall only be re- 
quired to be placed on Highth street and on River street between 
Eighth and Tenth streets, and on all such streets and parts of 
streets as the Common Council may hereafter by resolution direct 
and order. Whenever it becomes necessary to remove any wooden 
pole or poles, which may have become rotten or otherwise not fit 
for use, said pole or poles shall be replaced by iron poles. 

Sec. 7. The cars on said railways shall at all times be entitled 
to the track, and when any car or cars are approaching, any vehicle 
upon the track shall turn out so as not to impede the running or 
speed of such car or cars, and any driver of any vehicle refusing to 
cdo so shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding ten dollars and costs 
upon conviction in any justice’s court or muicipal court of compet- 
ent jurisdiction in the City of Holland, and upon imposition of any 
such fine and costs the justice or judge of such court may make a 
further sentence that, in default of such payment thereof, such 
oifender shall be imprisoned in the county jail of Ottawa e»ounty or 
in the city jail of said city for any length of time not exceeding ten 
days. 

Sec. 8. Permits shall not be issued to move buildings or 
large or bulky articles on or across any of the streets upon which 
said tracks are or: may be situated in such manner as to interfere 
with the overhead, equipment or the operation of cars upon said 
railway, unless, at the time of making such application, the person 
desiring the permit shall file with the City Clerk the written consent 
of said grantees, their successors or assigns, or shall be granted 
such consent or permission by the Mayor of said city. Whenever 
the Mayor of said city shall grant to any person the right to move 
a building or other bulky article, the owner of such building or 
article, or the person moving the same, shall be required, if possible 
or practicable, to move the same across or along the tracks of said 
railway between the hours of twelve o’clock midnight and five 
o’clock the next morning. The party in whose favor such permis- 
sion is granted, shall pay to said grantees, their successors and as- 
signs, any and all expenses and damages caused by the removal or 
disturbance of the wires, poles and premises of said railway. The 
permit, if issued, shall conform to the conditions as to the time and 
route laid down in the grantees’ consent, provided such a consent 
has been given. 

Sec. 9. This ordinance is also granted with the understanding 
that said road may be operated for the purpose of carrying bag- 
sage, express, freight, and U. S. mail as well as passengers; and 
said grantees, their successors and assigns, are hereby authorized 
to charge for carrying baggage, express and freight, whatever 
amount may he reasonable therefor, except such parcels as passen- 


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gers may conveniently carry with them on the cars, and to enter 
into contracts to carry freight, express, baggage and U. 8S. mail. 
Provided, however, Such express shall only be carried in modern 
combination express and baggage cars. The rates of fare for pass- 
engers for a single ride, for a continuous trip any distance in one 
direction over the lines of road of said grantees, their successors 
and assigns, in said city, as it now is or may hereafter become, shail 
not be more than five cents, for which the passenger shall be en- 
titled to such ride and to a ticket or transfer check, to be given 
such passenger before leaving the car, good for a ride over any 
other line or route operated by said grantees, their successors and 
assigns, within the City of Holland. Provided, That this provision 
shall not apply to any extension of the City of Holland westward 
beyond two miles from the present west limits of said city, and 
provided such transfer ticket is presented on the next regular car 
of such other route within one hour after such passenger leaves 
the car on which he paid the five cent fare and received such trans- 
fer ticket, if there be such car within such hour, and if not, then 
oy the first car thereafter. Said grantees shall also at all times 
keep for sale round trip tikcets from Holland City to Macatawa 
Park and return at a price of fifteen cents per ticket. Tickets must, 
however, be procured by passengers before boarding the cars, and 
the grantees must keep such tickets for sale at all times at four (4) 
Or more convenient and sujtable places in the City of Holland; 
which rate of fare shall not be reduced during the life of this or- 
dinance without the consent of said grantees, their successors and 
assigns. Provided further, That no freight, except package freight, 
so called, in combination express and baggage cars, and fruit and 
farm produce, shall be carried by said grantees, their successors 
and assigns, between the hours of seven o’clock in the morning and 
eight o’clock in the evening, and no freight of any kind except fruit 
and farm produce, which may be carried between the hours of six 
o’clock in the evening and eight o’clock in the morning, shall be 
carried by said grantees, their successors and assigns, on River 
street and on Thirteenth street east of Van Raalte avenue, nor 
shall any freight be carried on the first day of the week, commonly 
called Sunday. Provided further, That no train of more than three 
(3) freight cars shall be allowed to pass along any of said streets. 
(As amended by ordinance No. 206, approved Dec. 19, 1901.) 

Sec. 10 Said street railway shall be equipped with cars with 
modern conveniences for the comfort of passengers, and shall be 
lighted at night, and in cold weather they shall be comfortably 
heated. ‘ 

Sec. 11. The Common Council shall have the right to make 
reasonable regulations for running the cars during the entire year, 
which regulations shall only be made as the population of the city 
increases from time to time, in the manner following: From and 


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after the fifteenth day of April, 1900, and up to the time when the 
population of said city shall have reached 15,000 or over, as ascer- 
tained by federal, state or city census, cars shall not be required to 
run each way oftener than every fifteen minutes from six o’clock a. 
m. to eleven o’clock p. m. Whenever said city shall have attained 
a population of 15,000 or over, as ascertained by federal, state or 
city census, cars shall not be required to run thereafter oftener than 
every ten minutes each way from six a. m. to eleven o’clock p. m. 


These provisions, however, are not intended to preclude the run. 


ning of cars at such additional times as said grantees, their suc- 
cessors and assigns, may desire to operate the same, nor are such 
provisions intended to requjre the running of cars on Sunday. Pro-« 
vided, however, That the above provisions set forth in this section 
shall apply only to that part of said electric road being situated on 
Eighth street east. of River, cn River street south of Highth, on 
Thirteenth street, on’ Harrison avenue, and on Sixteenth street. 
(As amended by ordinance No. 206, approved Dec. 19, 1901.) 

Sec. 12. Cars to be used cn said railway shall be run at a rate 


of speed not to exceed ten miles per hour on Highth and River. 


streets, and not to exceed fourteen miles per hour on any of the 
other streets of said city, and any motorman or other person in 
charge of the running of any car, for a violation of this provision 
shall be liable to a fine of not to exceed $10 and costs of prosecu- 
tion, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction in the 
City of Holland, and upon the imposition of any such fine and costs, 
the justice or judge of such court may make a further sentence; 
that in default of such payment thereof, such offender shall be im- 
prisoned in the county jail of Ottawa County, or in the city jail of 
said city, for any length of time not to exceed ten days. 

At the intersection of streets whenever a passenger may desire 
to get on or off a car, such car shall be stopped and in such a man- 
ner as to leave the rear platform of the car slightly over the las: 
crossing in the direction in which said car is going. Cars shall also 
be stopped in the same manner at all cross-walks in the middle of 
blocks to let passengers on or off the same. No freight cars shall 
ke loaded or unloaded, or remain standing on any of the streets of 
the city. In case of a fire in the City of Holland, all cars shall 
stop wherever they may be when the fire alarm sounds or upon the 
approach of the fire apparatus, and shall remain standing sufficient- 
ly long to enable the fire department to reach the place of the fire 
or until the fire apparatus has passed said car. (As amended by 
ordinance No. 206, approved Dec. 19, 1901.) 

Sec. 13. The said grantees, their successors and assigns, are 
also hereby authorized to construet, maintain and operate street 
railways on such other streets, avenues, and public places in said 
city, and upon such other route or routes as they may hereafter 
desire, in preference to any other person, persons company of cor- 


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poration, Provided, the Common Council of said city, upon appli 
eation of said grantees, their successors or assigns, shall have first 
designated such streets, avenues, public places, route or routes, and 
said grantees, their successors or assigns, shall signify their accept- 
ance thereof, in writing, filed with the City Clerk of said city with- 
in thirty days after the same shall have been lawfully designated 
by said Common Council. Sugeh additional lines shall be construct- 
ed and operated under all of the provisions and conditions of this 
ordinance. 


Sec. 14. Whenever the Common Council shall decide that the 
establishment of a new route or extension of any street railway line 
is necessary for public convenience and accommodation, it shall, by 
ordinance, properly designate said route or extension and the terms 
aud conditions under which it shall be constructed and operated, 
and shall offer the same to the grantees of this ordinance, their 
successors and assigns, giving them thirty days in which to accept 
the same and file a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, with 
sufficient sureties to be approved by the Common Council, condi- 
tioned for the construction of said line in accordance with the con- 
ditions of said ordinance; and if accepted within said period, and 
said bond shall have been filed as above provided, said grantees, their 
successors and assigns, shall have one year thereafter in which ta 
construct and put into operation said new route or extension. 
Provided, also, That the rate of fare upon any street railway line 
which may be extended in accordance with this provision shall 
not in any manner be increased for a single ride on or over the en- 
tire line including such extensions. If the grantees hereof, their 
successors or assigns, shall fail to accept such provision of extension 
or shall fail to file such bond within the time above specified, or 
shall fail to construct said line or extension within the time above 
provided, the city may then grant the right to build and operate the 
same to any other party. Provided, however, That the terms and 
conditions of the grant to such other party shall be the same as 
far as the same are applicable at the time of such grant, as 
those previously offered to the grantees of this ordinance, their suc- 
cessors and assigns. And provided further, That when such grant 
shall be made to such other party, the Common Council may pro- 
vide that such other party shall have the right to connect with and 
use the tracks of said grantees, their successors or assigns, for a 
distance of not more than three blocks, by such new company pay- 
ing to said grantees, their successors or assigns, such compensation 
as may be mutually agreed upon between them; and if such other 
party or new company cannot agree with said grantees, their suc- 
cessors or assigns, then the amount to be paid said grantees, their 
successors or assigns, for the use of their tracks for said three 
blocks, shall be determined by arbitration, each company to select 
one arbitrator, and if the two so selected cannot agree, then the 


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iw6é go chosen shail choose a third, whose decision shall be final. 

Sec. 15. Said grantees, their successors and assigns shall 
complete, ready for operation, the lines of railway mentioned in 
section two of this ordinance, on or before the first day of July, 
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. (As amended by 
ordinance No. 191, approved May 28, 1898.) 

Sec. 16. This ordinance is granted to the said Charles M. 
Humphrey, the grantee hereinbefore named, upon the express con- 
dition that he shall assign and transfer all of his right, title and 
interest in and to the same, and all of the powers and privileges 
hereby conferred upon him and his assigns, to a corporation here- 
after to be organized under the provisions of Chapter ninety-five of 
Howell’s Annotated Statutes of the State of Michigan, as amend- 
ed, having for its object, among other things, the operation of a 
street railway in said City of Holland, and when such assignment 
and transfer shall have been made to such corporation, and notice 
thereof and acceptance by such corporation shall have been filed 
with the City Clerk of said city as in the next section provided, then 
all of the powers and privileges hereby conferred upon said 
grantees, their successors and assigns, shall thereafter be given, 
granted and duly vested in such corporation, its successors and 
assigns, without any further action, permission or authority of the 
Common Council of said city, the same as though this franchise had 
been originally granted to such corporation, its successors and as- 
signs. 

Sec. 17. Within sixty days after the passage of this ordin- 
ance, the said Charles M. Humphrey, grantee hereinbefore named, 
shall cause a corporation to be organized under the provisions of 
Chapter ninety-five of Howell’s Annotated Statutes of this state, as 
amended, having for its object, among other things, the construc- 
tion and operation of a street railway in said City of Holland, and 
thereafter, and within said sixty days, said Charles M. Humphrey 
shall assign this franchise to such corporation as in the foregoing 
section provided; and likewise within said sixty days, the corpora- 
tion to which such assignment shall be made, shall file with the 
City Clerk a copy thereof, and its acceptance, in writing, of the 
terms and conditions of this ordinance upon which permission is 
granted to use said streets. 


Sec. 18. It is hereby stipulated and conditioned, that the 
principal business office of the eorporation herein provided for shall 
for the purpose of the general assessment and taxation of its pro- 
perty, be at all. times located within the corporate limits of the City 
of Holland, and this condition shall be embodied in and at all times 
remain embodied in the articles of incorporation provided for in 
the preceding section. 

Sec. 19. It is also provided that whenever during the life 
of this ordinance the City of Holland shall attain a population of 


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twenty-five thousand or more, as ascertained or compiled from 
either federal, state or city census, the gaid corporation, its suc- 
cessors or assigns, shall annually thereafter, not later than the 
thirty-first day of January, pay over to the City Treasurer of said 
city as a franchise fee, a sum equal to one- -half of one per cent of 
its gross receipts derived from the operation of the said railway 
within the corporate limits of said city during the preceding calen- 
dar year, as ascertained from the books of said company. Full re- 
turns of such gross receipts shall be made by the secretary of said 
corporation, on oath, during the month of January in each year for 
such preceding calendar year, and filed with the City Clerk of the 
city , accompanied with the receipt of the City Treasurer for the 
amount so required to be paid in. 

Sec. 20. The said grantees, their successors or assigns, are 
hereby prohibited from furnishing light or power or electric cur- 
rent for any purposes, except their own use, within the city limits 
during the life of this ordinance, unless permission to do so is first 
obtained from the Commoy Council of said city. 

Sec. 21 Whenever, by the terms of sections three, four and 
five of this ordinance, the said grantees, their successors or assigns, 
are required to perform any act, and shall fail to do or perform the 
same at the time and in the manner herein required, then said city 
may do or perform such act, and the expense incurred by said city 
in so doing may be by it collected against said grantees, their suc- 
cessors or assigns. 


Sec. 22. It is also provided that if the said corporation shall 
not be organized within sixty days after the passing of this ordin- 
ance, or if said corporation, when organized, shall fail to file its 
acceptance thereof within said sixty days, or if when so organized 
it shall fail to complete, ready for operation, the lines of railway 
hereinbefore mentioned, on or before the first day of July, one 
thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight as hereinbefore provided, 
or if said corporation shall at any time fail to comply with any of 
the provisions of sections eighteen or nineteen of this ordinance, 
then, and in any of those events, all rights of said grantees, their 
successors and assigns, in and to this franchise, shall be hereby 
forfeited, and this ordinance and the ordinance which this ordin- 
ance amends shall in either of these events become null and void. 
(As amended by ordinance No. 191, approved May 28, 1898.) 


Sec. 23. The said corporation, its successors or assigns shall 
ke liable to the city in a penalty of ten dollars a day for each and 
every day they shall neglect or refuse to operate said street rail- 
way, or any part thereof, and run cars thereon during the time and 
at the hours when by the provisions of this ordinance such cars are 
required to be run, except for an unavoidable reason or circum-- 
stances beyond their control; and if they shall continue to neglect 
or refuse to: operate such road and run such cars for a period of 


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sixty days at any one time, or shall neglect or refuse to pay Such 
penalty within thirty days after demand thereof made by the city, 
then the Common Council may thereafter declare the franchise 
granted by this ordinance forfeited. 

Sec. 24. If the said corporation, its successors or assigns 
shall at any time, neglect or refuse to repair the streets or to do 
any other act or thing herein required of them to be done, they 
shall be liable to the city for the amount of all damages which 
shall be recovered against the city for any accident or injury oc- 
curring by reason of such neglect or refusal. 

Sec. 25. The powers, privileges and rights conferred and ob- 
ligations herein and hereby imposed, shall be deemed a contract 
and continued to said grantees, their successors and assigns, for a 
period of thirty years from and after adoption thereof. 

Sec. 26. This ordinance shall go into effect twenty days from 
its passage. 


No. 185 


AN ORDINANCE 
Establishing a Fire District in the City of Holland. 


Passed May 25, 1897. Approved May 26, 1897. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Boundaries. 4. Small wooden buildings. 
2. Walls and roofs. Repairs. 5. Distinct offense every week 
3. Outer walls. 6. Penalty. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. All that portion of the city included within the follow- 
ing boundaries is hereby constituted a fire district in the City of 
Holland, to-wit: Commencing at a point on Lincoln Avenue (form; 
erly Land St.) ten rods north of the intersection of Lincoln avenue 
and 9th street, and running thence north ten rods to the center of 
the intersection of Highth street and Lincoln avenue, running 
thence west along the center line of 8th street to the center of 
Columbia avenue (formerly Fish street) and running thence north 
ten rods to a point opposite the center of the east line of block 32 
of the original plat of the village of Holland; running thence ‘west 
through the center of said block 32 and the center of block 31 to 
the southeast corner of lot 7 in block 31; thence north ten rods; 
thence west along the center line of 7th street to a point 133 feet 
east of the center of the intersection of River and Seventh streets; 
thence north 40 rods to the center of Fifth street; thence west 
along the center of Fifth street to a point 198 feet due west from 


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the center of the intersection of River and Fifth streets; thence 
south forty rods to the center of Seventh street; thence east to a 
point 133 feet west from the center of the intersection of River and 
Seventh streets; thence south ten rods; thence west to the south- 
west corner of lot 4 in block 29, thence south 20 rods to the south- 
west corner of lot four in block 38; thence east to a point one 
hundred fifty-eight feet west from the center of River street; thence 
south 30 rods to the center of Tenth street; thence due west along 
the center of 10th street 163 and three fourths feet; thence south 
ten rods; thence east to the northwest corner of lot seventeen in 
block forty-seven; thence south 30 rods, to the center of 12th street 
thence east to the center of River street, thence north along the 
center of River Street 40 rods; thence east along the center line of 
10th street to the center of the intersection of Central avenue and 
10th street; thence north 20 rods to the center of 9th street thence 
east to a point opposite the east line of lot ten in block 36 thence 
north ten rods to the center line of block 36; thence east throuzh 
the center of block 36, block 35, and block 34 to the center of Lin- 
coln avenue, the place of beginning. (As amended by Ordinance 
No. 278. Approved Jan. 4. 1912.) 

Sec. 2. No building or part of a building, the outer wall or 
walls, or roof of which, is constructed of wood or other combustible 
material, shall be moved into, rebuilt, enlarged or repaired, within 
the limits of the fire district, or be removed from one place to an- 
other therein. Provided, however, That the Common Council may 
by resolution authorize and prescribe the improvement of any such 
building to be lengthened or widened, to the extent of not exceed- 
ing twenty-five per cent. of its insurable value. And provided furth- 
er, That repairs on any such building already erected or situated 
within the limits of said district prior to the passage of this ordi- 
nance may be made within a period of any two years to the extent 
or not exceeding five per cent. of its insurable value, unless special 
permission for more extensive repairs shall have been previously 
obtained from the Commen Council. And provided further, That 
in case of damage by fire, or by the elements, repairs on any such 
damaged building situated within the limits of said district may be 
made to the extent of not exceeding twenty per cent. of its insur- 
able value prior to such damage; the total value of such repairs, 
iia are at no time to exceed the amount of damages sustain- 
ed. 

Sec. 3. The outer walls of every building or part of a build- 
ing hereafter erected, moved into, rebuilt, or repaired within the 
limits of said fire district shall be constructed, of stone, brick or 
other incombustible material. 

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Sec, 6. For each and every week in which a building erected, 
moved into, rebuilt, enlarged or repaired contrary to the provisions 
of this ordinance, shall be allowed to remain, the owner of such 
building may be complained of as for a distinct offense, and pun- 
ished as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine of not exceeding one hyndred dollars and costs of prosecution, 
or by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of the County of 
Ottawa, for a period not exceeding ninety days; and in case a fine 
and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced to 
be imprisoned in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa County, until 
the payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding ninety 
days. . 

Sec. 7. An ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Establishing 
Certain Fire Limits or Districts in the City of Holland,” passed 
February 24, 1887, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 189 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Dogs. 
Passed April 7, 1898. Approved Tpril 8, 1898. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. License. 6. Vicious dogs. 

2. Obtaining license. 7. Poundmaster. 

3. Tags. 8. Impounding of dogs. 
4. Counterfeit tags. 9. Penalty. 

5. Muzzling of dogs. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to own or keep in 
his possession within the limits of the City of Holland, any dog 
over the age of three months, unless such owner or keeper thereof 
shall have first obtained a license therefor from the City Clerk, and 
shall have complied with the provisions in this ordinance set forth. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of every person owning or keep- 
ing in his possession any such dog, over the age of three months, to 
apply to the City Clerk for a license to own or keep the same, and 
to pay to the City Clerk for such license the sum of one dollar for 
each’ male dog, and the sum of two dollars for each female dog. 
Every license so issued shall expire on the first Monday in June 
next ensying after the issuing thereof. Provided, That when such 


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license is issued after the first Monday in December, the sum to vi 
paid for the balance of such license year shall be fifty cents 10 
each male dog, and one dollar for each female dog. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to issue 49 every 
such applicant a license for each dog so applied for, as provided in 
section two, and keep a record thereof . The City Clerk shal} also 
furnish with each license so issued a metallic tag, containing the 
number of the license, the license year when issued and the letters 
“H, C.” duly stamped or engraved thereon. The shape and style 
of such tag shall be changed on the first Monday of June in each 
year. : 

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of every owner or person receiv- 
ing any such license, to place or cause to be placed upon the neck 
of every dog, for which such license has been issued, a collar, and 
on, or to such collar to attach or cause to be attached the metallic 
tag so furnished by the City Clerk; and if any person shall place or 
cause to be placed upon the collar around the neck of any such dog 
any counterfeit of the metallic tag so furnished by the City Clerk, 
or place any such metallic tag upon the collar around the neck of 
any such dog, without a license having first been obtained therefor, 
he shall be liable to the penalties hereinafter provided. A duplicate 
tag, in case of loss, shall be issued by the Clerk upon the application 
of the owner or keeper of any such dog, upon the payment of 
twenty-five cents. 

Sec. 5. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the Mayor, or 
acting mayor, that there is good reason for believing that any dog 
or dogs within the city are mad, it shall be the duty of the Mayor, 
or acting mayor, to issue a proclamation requiring that all dogs 
shall, for a period to be defined in the proclamation, wear good and 
substantial wire, gauze, or leather muzzles, securely put and fasten- 
ed on, so as to prevent them from biting; and it shall be the duty 
of the Marshal or any Constable of said city to kill and bury any 
dog going at large without such mugzle during the period defined 
by the Mayor. 

Sec. 6. No person shall harbor or keep any dog which by 
loud and frequent yelping, or habitual barking or howling, shall 
cause serious annoyance to people residing or being in the neigh- 
borhood, or passing to and fro upon the streets. No person own- 
ing, keeping or harboring any fierce or vicious dog, or female dog 
in heat, shall suffer the same to be at large at any time within 
the city limits. Any person allowing any dog habitually to remain, 
and to be lodged or fed at or within his or her house, store, shop, or 
place of business, or premises owned or occupied by him or her, 
shall be considered as harboring or keeping the same within the 
meaning of this ordinance. 

Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Poundmaster of the City 
of Holland to take up and impound, in the public pound, any dog 


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over the age of three months that may be found running at large 
in any of the streets or public places within the city not having 
on a collar and the metallic tag fastened thereto as hereinbefore 
specified. When any such dog shall have been impounded the 
Foundmaster shall forthwith give three days’ public notice of such 
impounding by posting notices in three conspicuous places within 
the city, which notice shall contain a description of the dog im- 
pounded, and if said dog shall not be redeemed, as hereinafter 
provided within three days after such dog shall have been impound- 
ed, it shall be the duty of the Poundmaster to slay or cause the 
same to be slain. 

Sec. 8. Any dog so impounded may be redeemed, or taken 
from the pubiic pound, upon exhibiting to the Poundmaster a re- 
ceipt of the City Clerk, showing that the license fee imposed by 
this ordinance has been paid for such dog, and the payment to 
the Poundmaster of a pound fee of one dollar, and also twenty 
cents per day for each any every day such dog shall have been im- 
pcunded. In case any such dog shall not be redeemed, and the 
same shall be slain, or caused to be slain by the Poundmaster, he 
shall bury such dog and receive therefor from the city the sum of 
twenty-five cents for each and every dog impounded, slain and 
buried. 

Sec. 9. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
of not exceeding fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, or by im- 
prisonment in the city jail, or county jail of the County of Ottawa 
for a period not exceeding sixty days; and in case a fine and costs 
only shall be imposed, the cffender may be sentenced to imprison- 
ment in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa County, until the 
payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding sixty days. 

Sec. 10. An ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Relative to 
Dogs,’’ passed December 14, 1886, and approved December 15, 
1886, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 11. This ordinance shall take effect on the first Monday 
of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. 


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No. 209 
AN ORDINANCE 


_An Ordinance To Regulate the Use of the Public Parks of the 


City of Holland and to Provide for the Protection 
of Public Property Therein. 


Passed August 5, 1902. Approved August 6, 1902. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Opening of parks. 5. Profanity, games, rubbish, 
2. Mutilation of trees, etc. hand bills, liquor, etc. 
3. Addresses in parks. 6. Walkiag on grass, ete.. 
4. Dogs, etc., not allowed. forbidden. 

7. Penalty. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 

Sec. 1. The public parks of the City of Holland shall be open 
to the public only between sunrise in the morning and ten o’clock 
in the evening of each day, and no person (except those in charge 
of such park, shall enter or be therein while such parks. are closed 
ta the public. 

Sec. 2. No person shall break, cut, mutilate, overturn, in- 
jure, remove or carry away any tree, shrub, flower, plant, stone, 
stonework, bench, chair, seat, bower or stand, or anything what- 
ever in or from any public park or street or avenue adjacent there- 
to. Nor shall any person climb into or upon any tree, table, seat, 
or structure in said parks; nor kill, destroy or molest any bird, 
bird’s nest, animal or fish within or belonging to said parks; nor 
shall any person paste, affix or inscribe any handbills, signs, pos- 
ters, card, devises or inscriptions to, upon or against any tree, struc- 
ture or property of or in such parks, or the streets adjacent there- 
to; nor disfigure or injure any sward, walk, turf or earth in said 
parks. 

Sec. 3. No person shall deliver any oration, address, speech, 
sermon or lecture in said parks, nor shall any public meeting be 
held therein unless permission in writing shall first have been ob- 
tained from the Board of Parks or from the Superintendent in 
charge. 

Sec. 4. No person shall permit any domestic animal to run 
at large within said parks; nor shall any person carry any fire arms 
of any kind or description within said parks; nor allow any dog 
therein, except when led by a chain or cord not exceeding six feet in 
length. 

Sec. 5. No person shall use any threatening, obscene, profane 
or indecent language in any of the public parks of the city, or: be 
guilty of any disorderly or indecent conduct therein ; nor shall any 


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person indulge in any game or act of demeanor tending to mar 
or disturb the feeling or enjoyment of any visitor in said parks. 
Nor shall any person deposit any rubbish, refuse, papers or rags in 
said parks, except same be deposited in such waste baskets or boxes 
as may be therefor provided; nor shall any person distribute, ped- 
dle, or scatter any advertisement, circular, poster or handbill there- 
in; nor peddle, sell or dispose of, or offer for sale any of his wares 
in said parks or in or upon the sidewalks and streets adjacent 
thereto; nor shall any person use or dispose of any intoxicating 
liquors in any way whatsoever in said parks or upon the sidewalks 
and streets adjacent thereto; nor shall any person ride a bicycle in 
said parks. 

Sec. 6. No person shall walk, sit, stand or lie upon any parts 
of said parks, appropriated and made use of for grass, flowers and 
shrubbery, or in any way mar or disfigure the same. 

Sec. 7. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine 
of not to exceed $100 and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment 
in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County for a period not t¢ 
exceed ninety days, and in case of fine and costs only shall be impos- 
ed, the offender may be sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail 
or county jail of Ottawa County until the payment of such fine and 
costs for a term not to exceed ninety days. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 210 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Hawkers and Peddlers. 
Passed August 26, 1902. Approved August 27, 1902. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. License. 4. ObStruction of streets. 
2. Application for license. 5. Penalty. 


3. Cost of license. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 

Sec. 1. No person shall engage in or carry on the business of 
hawking or peddling within the limits of the City of Holland; nor 
shall any person sell or expose for sale any goods, wares, merchan- 
dise or any kind of property or thing from any stand, cart, vehicle 
or other device in or upon the streets, alleys, docks, open places or 
spaces, public grounds and buildings within the city without having 
first obtained from the Common Council a license therefor, as here- 
inbefore provided. 

Sec. 2. Every person desiring to obtain a license or engage in 
the business of hawking or peddling within the city or who shall de- 


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sire to sell or expose for sale any goods, wares, merchandise, re- 
freshments or any kind of property or thing from any stand, cart, 
vehicle or other device in or upon the streets, alleys, docks, open 
places or spaces, public grounds or buildings, in the city, shall, be- 
fore entering upon such business, make application in writing there- 
for to the Clerk of said city, and shall pay to the said Clerk the sum 
of money hereinafter provided as a license fee. The said Clerk shall 
thereupon issue the license, signed by the Mayor, as hereinafter pro- 
vided; but no license shall be issued by him for the sale or exposure 
for sale of any goods, wares, merchandise, refreshments or other 
property of thing from any stand, cart, vehicle or other device in 
Eighth street and on River street south of Highth street. The Mayor 
and Clerk shall designate the exact location of each stand, cart, 
vehicle or other device licensed. 

Sec. 3. The sum of money to be paid for such license shall be 
as follows: Peddlers or Hawkers going about on foot in said city 
shall pay for each license for one year the sum of $25.00; for six 
months, $15; one month $10; and for one day $2. 

Peddlers or Hawkers going about with a wagon or cart shall 
pay for each license for one year the sum of $40; for six months 
$25; one month $15; one week $5; and for one day $3. 

A person selling or exposing for sale goods, wares, merchandise, 
refreshments. or other property or thing from any stand, cart, 
vehicle, or other device in or upon the streets, aileys, docks, open 
places or spaces, public grounds or buildings in the city shall pay 
for each license for one year the sum of $100; for six months, $50; 
for one day or less, $10. 

This section shall not apply to persons selling home grown 
fruits, home grown vegetables, dairy or farm products; nor shall it 
apply to butchers or bakers who deliver meat, bread or pastry to 
their customers upon orders at their dwellings in said city. Provided 
however, that the Council when he deems it expedient, may reduce 
the sum of money to be paid for a license applied for under the pro- 
visions of this ordinance. (As amended by Ordinance No. 236. 
Approved April 12, 1906.) 


Sec. 4. No person licensed to sell his goods or merchandise 
from any stand, cart, vehicle or other device shall occupy the street 
or sidewalk in surh a manner as to interfere with or interrupt the 
travel on such street or sidewalk; nor shall persons sell or expose 
for sale any unsound, stale or unwholesome vegetables, fruits, ber- 
ries or other articles manufactured in whole or in part from any 
unwholesome flour or meal. 

Sec. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
net exceeding $100 and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in 
the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County for a period not exceed- 
ing thirty days; and in case of fine and costs only shall be imposed, 


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the offender may be sentenced to imprisonment in the city jail or 
county jail of Ottawa county until the payment of such fine and 
costs for a period not exceeding thirty days. 

Sec. 6. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Relative to Ped- 
dlers, Hawkers and Persons Selling or Exposing for Sale any Goods, 
Wares, Merchandise, Refreshments, or Any Kind of Property or 
Thing, from Any Stand, Cart, Vehicle, or Other Device in the 
Streets, Highways, or in or Upon the Wharfs, Docks, Open Places 
Or Spaces, Public Grounds or Buildings Within the City of Holland,”’’ 
passed May 25, 1886, and approved May 26, 1886, is hereby repeal- 
ed. 

Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 218 
AN ORDINANCE 


Granting to Bascom Parker of Niles, Mich., and His Assigns, 
the Right to Construct, Maintain and Operate 
Gas Works in the City of Holland. 


Passed March 9, 1903. Approved March 10, 1913. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Gas Mains. 12. Information to City. 
2. Laying of pipes. 13. Home business office. 
3. Quality of pipes, etc. 14. Officers and agents of Gas 
4. Location of pipes. Co. 
5. Injury to streets. 15. Excavations in streets. 
6. Notice of opening of 16. Thirty year franchise. 
streets, etc. 17. Amendments. 
7. Expense of repairing 18. Forfeiture of franchise. 
damage. pee 19. Completion of plant. 
8. Connections and meters. Paving of streets. 
9. Gas rates. 20. Extension of gas mains. 
10. Gas bills. ..Removal of 21. Right of purchase by City 
meters. Gas test. 22. Acceptance of ordinance. 


11. Meter test. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 

Sec. 1. That consent, permission and authority are hereby 
granted to Bacom Parker of Niles, Mich., and his assigns, to lay, 
maintain, operate and use gas pipes, mains, conduits and service 
pipes in the streets of the City of Holland for the purpose of selling 
and supplying manufactured gas for fuel, illuminating and manu- 
facturing purposes to the inhabitants of said city, for and during 


the term hereinafter specified and in the manner and upon the con- 


ditions set forth in this ordinance. 


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Sec. 2. Said grantee, and his assigns, shall lay all of said 
pipes, mains, conduits and service pipes in such a Manner as not 
to interfere with other pipes, conduits and sewers already laid in 


said streets, and so as not to injure the same or prevent access 


thereto, over, under and around the same for the purpose of taking 
them up or for necessary examination and repair; and if in the lay- 
ing of said gas pipes, mains, conduits and service pipes any injury 
shall result to other pipes or sewers, the expense of repairing such 
injury shall be borne and paid by said grantee or his assigns. Said 
provisions shall apply to all other pipes and sewers whether cross- 
ing said gas mains or running in the same direction. 

Sec. 8. The main pipes laid by said grantee or his assigns, in 
the streets or alleys of said city, shall be of the most approved kind 
as to size and quality and shall prove at least eighty (80) pounds 
water pressure. 

Said grantee and his assigns before laying any pipe in any 
street in said city shall first make application in writing to the 
Common Council of said city, showing the location where said pipes 
are to be laid, which location shall be subject to change by said 
city and said pipes shall then be laid in such streets only, in ac- 
cordance with the permission of the Common Council. 

Sec. 4. Said pipes shall be laid at a sufficient depth so as not 


tc be an impediment to the use of or an injury to the surface of 


the streets, and all the appurtenances thereto which extend to or 
above the surface of the streets shall be so constructed and located 
therein as not to in-erfere with the ordinary use of the street; and 
the main pipes laid in any street shall be laid six (6) feet from 
the outer edge of the curb thereof and on the opposite side of the 
street from the water mains, unless the Common Council shail 
otherwise direct, in which case they shall be located as directed by 
said Council. 


Sec. 5. The said grantee, and his assigns, shall do no injury 
to any street or alley nor to any shade trees, curbs or sidewalks; nor 
in any manner disturb or interfere with any of the city’s water pipes 
or sewers, and shall fully indemnify and save harmless the City of 
Holland from any and all claims for damages which said city may 
be made or become liable to pay by reason of the construction, mak- 
‘ng, laying or operating the said pipes, mains, conductors or service 
pipes, or giving or allowing of the license, right and privilege here- 
by granted. 

Sec. 6. Before opening any street or alley in said city for the 
purpose of laying its pipes or making connections with said pipes, 
said grantee, and his assigns, shall give the City Clerk notice of 
the intended location of same twenty-four (24) hours before com- 
mencing such work; and in the relaying of pavements and in do- 
ing all other work necessary for the complete restoration of the 
streets, pavements, sidewalks, or grounds, to an equally good con- 


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dition as before disturbed, said grantee, and his assigns, their ser- 
vants and employees, shall at all times be under the supervision 
and direction of the City Council or its authorized agent; and when 
said grantee, or his assigns shall open ground in said city to lay 
any gas pipes or for any purpose whatever, they shall open no more 
space at any one time nor at any one place, nor keep the same open 
longer than is necessary to execute the work for which the same 
shall have been opened, and the Common Council or its authorized 
agent may determine the question of such necessity. Said grantee, 
and his assigns, shall at all times display the necessary danger 
signals around all excavations and keep sufficient space in good con- 
dition for travel for wagons and teams on at least one side of all 
excavations and shall as soon as practicable restore all openings to 
a condition equally as good as before and shall promptly comply 
with any order or regulation of said Common Council or its auth- 
orized agents. And it is especially required that in all cases where 
work requires the exercise of skill, as in the laying or relaying of 
pavements, crosswalks, or sidewalks, the said grantee, and his as- 
signs, shall employ none but skilled workmen, familiar with the 
execution of such work. It shall, however, be optional with the 
Common Council to relay such pavement, sidewalks and crosswalks 
themselves, at the expense of said grantee and his assigns, if in 
their judgment the best interests of the city require it. 

Sec. 7. The expense of the city to carry out the provisions 
of the foregoing section and for the services of its agent or agents 
in superintending the opening up of the streets and replacing the 
same, shall be a proper charge against the said grantee or his as- 
signs upon demand by the Common Council. Provided, That no 
agent be employed for a longer time than is necessary to protect 
the city, and no greater compensation shall be charged than is paid 
for that service performed for said city. | 


Sec. 8. All meters, service pipes and connections used for the 
purpose of furnishing gas for cooking purposes shall be furnished, 
laid and made by said grantee and his assigns, free of charge. All 
service pipes and connections for the purpose of using gas for other 
than cooking purposes shall be furnished, laid and made by said 
grantee and his assigns to that point inside of the building nearest 
to and most accessible to the street mains, free of charge, and the 
meters shall be furnished and set by said grantee and his assigns 
free of charge. Said grantee and his assigns may remove meters 
from the premises of any persons occupying the same, provided no 
gas has been used for a period of two months: but if occupants of 
such premises shall pay for five hundred ( 500) cubic feet of gas 
each month, such meter or meters shall not be removed by said 
grantee or his assigns. 


Sec. 9. The rights and privileges herein granted are upon the 
express condition that said grantee and his assigns shall furnish 


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merchantable illuminating gas to applicants and consumers accord- 
ing to the provisions herein and shall not charge nor receive any 
higher rate for gas furnished to the inhabitants of said city than 
the following, to-wit: 

One dollar ($1.00) per thousand cubic feet, subject to five (5) 
per cent discount when bill is paid on or before the fifteenth day of 
each month; and when the entire annual consumption of gas in the 
City of Holland shall reach 25,000,000 cubic feet, a discount 
of ten (10) per cent will be allowed, and when such consumption 
of gas shall reach 50,000,000 cubic feet, a discount of twenty (20) 
per cent will be allowed, and when such consumption of gas shall 
reach 100,000,000 cubic feet a discount of twenty-five (25) per 
cent will be allowed. 

Provided, always, That said grantee and his assigns may at 
any time lower any fixed prices for gas for illuminating, fuel and 
manufacturing purposes, but at no time shall the prices ever ex- 
ceed the prices before named and hereby provided for. And it is 
expressly agreed by said grantee and his assigns that if said price 
for furnishing gas for illuminating and motor purposes is lowered 
at any time during the life of this ordinance, said price thus made 
shall not be increased, but shall remain as then made 
by said grantee and his assigns for the next then succeeding term 
of five (5) years, after which time the said grantee and his assigns 
may again charge and receive, for furnishing said gas to the in- 
habitants of the city, the prices hereinbefore named and provided 
for. 

Provided, however. That the price charged for gas for illum- 
inating and motor purposes shall not at any time during the life of 
this ordinance be lower than the price charged by said grantee and 
his assigns for gas for fuel purposes. 


Sec. 10. A bill shall be rendered by said grantee and his as- 
signs to each consumer on or before the fifth day of each month 
for the gas used by said consumer during the preceding month, 
which shall state the number of cubic feet of gas used by said con- 
sumer during said month, the average illuminating power for the 
month, the amount due the said grantee or his assigns, and the dis- 
count to which the consumer is entitled if paid before the 15th day 
of the month, as above provided. If any person or persons supplied 
with gas shall fail for ten days to pay any bill rendered for gas 
furnished, the said grantee or his assigns may stop the gas from en- 
tering the premises of such person or persons so long as the same 
remains in arrears, but no meter shall be removed from the premises 
of such delinquent without first giving thirty (30) days’ written 
notice by mailing the same to said delinquent in the postoffice at 
Holland City. In no case shall the officers, servants or employees 
of said grantee and his assigns remove a meter from any premises 
supplied with gas by said grantee or his assigns, unless by the con- 


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sent of the consumer, without first giving twenty-four (24) hours’ 
notice in printing or in writing, by leaving the same with or mailing 
it to said consumer, and said removal shall take place only between 
the hours of eight o’clock a. m. and two o’clock p. m. The gas fur- 
nished by said grantee and his assigns for fuel, illuminating or 
maunfacturing purposes shall be merchantable illuminating gas of 
not less than eighteen (18) candle power and containing not less 
than six hundred and fifty (650) British thermai units per cubic 
foot, aS measured by a standard Junker’s calorimeter, and to be 
determined by the monthly average of daily record tests by the said 
grantee and his assigns, under the direction and to the satisfaction 
of the Common Council or its authorized agents, and the said gas 
shall be delivered at the burner at such pressure in the mains as 
shall be consistent with the proper distribution of gas throughout 
the entire city, and the degree of said pressure shall be proper and 
reasonable and at all times subject to the approval of the Council or 
its authorized agents. All governors, meters and works of said 
grantee and his assigns shall at all times be subject to the inspec- 
tion of the Council or its authorized agents. 


Sec. 11. The Council, by its authorized agents, shall have the 
right at any time to remove any meter from the premises of any con- 
sumer for the purpose of testing the same. Said grantee and his 
assigns shall be required, whenever the Common Council deem 
necessary, to supply any consumer, whose meter has been or is about 
to be removed for inspection, with another meter to be used for the 
time required for such inspection. Any consumer of gas in said 
city on paying to the City Clerk a fee of one dollar ($1.00) to have 
his meter inspected, may be present at such test, if he so desires, ang 
the said grantee and his assigns shall have notice that such test is 
to be made by the authorized agent of the Common Council. If up- 
on inspection such meter shall be found to register the volume of 
gas three (3) per cent above the amount of gas that actually passed 
through it, said inspection fee shall be returned in full to the person 
making the application and in such event said grantee and his as- 
signs shall pay into the City Treasury the sum of fifty (50) cents. 
The agent making such inspection shall mark such meter ‘‘fast’”’ 
and the said grantee and his assigns shall not allow the same to be 
again used until the defect is remedied, the meter again inspected 
by said agent and found to be correct and so certified. Every 
such meter shall be considered correct and sealed accord- 
ingly, which shall register quantities less than three (3) per cent 
above the amount of gas actually passed through it and a record 
shall be kept of the same and all fees so collected. Whenever a con- 
sumer shall have his meter tested as above provided and the same 
shall be found correct, said inspection fee shall not be returned, but 
shall be equally divided between the city and the grantee or his as- 
signs. All meters used by said grantee and his assigns shall be of 


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the latest and most approved pattern and whenever required by the 
Common Council shall be first inspected, approved and sealed by the 
agents of the Common Council before using. All tests of meters 
shall be made with standard meter provers in ordinary use. 

Sec. 12. The said grantee and his assigns shall furnish to the 
Council any and all information which may be asked for by said 
Council in regard to the size, location, condition and depth of any 
of its pipes, mains, conductors, service pipes, or meters, together 
with maps, when required, and other information in regard to its 
occupation of any of the streets, alleys or other public places of said 
city, which said Council may demand. 

Sec. 13. Said grantee and his assigns shall at all times have 
and maintain within the corporate limits of said city, its gas works 
and its home business office, at which the gas business of 
said grantee and his assigns is conducted, and said grantee 
and his assigns shall keep on _ sale at said office a 
sufficient supply of stoves, fixtures, appliances, etc., for the con- 
venience of the public, and it is hereby expressly stipulated and con- 
ditioned that this franchise and rights and privileges hereby grant- 
ed to said grantee shall never be assigned, set over or transferred, 
and shall never be the property of another corporation unless this 
condition, namely, that its principal home office shall be located in 
the City of Holland, shall be embodied in and at all times remain 
embodied in its articles of incorporation. 

Sec. 14. The provisions and obligations of this ordinance shall 
apply to and be observed and kept by all officers, agents and ser- 
vants of said grantee and his assigns and to all contractors and sub- 
contractors employed by said grantee and his assigns. 


Sec. 15. Said grantee and his assigns shall faithfully observe 
and comply with all the provisions of the ordinances of the said city 
relating to the deposit of building material and excavating in the 
streets or other public places in said city. . 


Sec. 16. This ordinance shall continue and remain in force 
subject to the conditions and provisions herein contained, for the 
period of thirty (30) years from and after its passage, when all the 
rights of said grantee and his assigns shall cease and expire. 

Sec. 17. The Council reserves the right to make any reason- 
able amendments to this ordinance and to pass such other and furth- 
er reasonable ordinances in relation thereto as it may deem proper, 
providing the same does not conflict with any rights or privileges 
hereby granted to said grantee and his assigns. 

Sec. 18. In the event of the grantee and his assigns neglect- 
ing or refusing to fully carry out and comply with the provisions of 
this ordinance for a period of thirty (30) days after notice of a re- 
quirement by the Council to cease such violation, then it shall be 
optional with said Council to declare this franchise forfeited and to 
annul and rescind the same.. 


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Sec. 19. Said grantee or his assigns shall commence thé con- 
struction of said gas plant and distributive system within three (3) 
months after the passage and acceptance of this ordinance and 
within ten (10) months of such acceptance shall have its plant 
completed ready to furnish gas, and shall have laid and completed 
for use at least forty thousand (40,000) feet of main pipe with the 
necessary service and meter connections to supply all persons along 
the line of said main pipes who shall desire to use gas under the 
terms of this ordinance; and shall have laid and completed ready 
for use before June ist, 1903, all its pipes on Highth ‘street, from 
the west line of River street to the Pere Marquette Railroad cross- 
ing, together with connecting service pipes, every forty (40) feet, 
from said main pipe to the curb lines on both sides of the street; 
and whenever the City of Holland intends to pave any other street 
or streets in said city, the said grantee and his assigns shall lay its 
pipe, together with all the necessary connecting service pipes, to 
the curb lines on both sides of such street before said paving is 
commenced, and no paving in said city shall be torn up or removed 
for the purpose of laying any additional main pipe in such street 
or new or additional connecting service pipes, and said grantee and 
his assigns shall be permitted to break up paving only for the pur- 
pose of repairing its main or service pipes. . 

Sec. 20. Whenever an applicant shall agree to take and con- 
tinue to use and pay for fuel or llluminating gas for a period of at 
least twelve (12) months, said grantee and his assigns shall within 
ninety (90) days after such application extend .a main and furnish 
such applicant gas on the terms and conditions herein contained. 
Provided, That the said grantee and his assigns can obtain a con- 
sumer of gas for every two hundred (200) feet such main is extend- 
ed. Provided, however, That no mains shall be extended during 
the months of November, December, January and February of each 
year. 


Sec. 21. The City of Holland shall have the right to purchase, 
at the expiration of ten (10) years from the date of the passage of 
this ordinance, and at theexpiration of every fifth year thereafter, 
all the works, apparatus, mains, pipes, meters, supplies and other 
property, and the business of said grantee and his assigns, in this 
city, at a valuation and upon terms and conditions which shall be 
fixed by a board of arbitration, to be composed as hereinafter stated. 
Provided, Said city shall give to said grantee or his assigns six (6) 
months’ notice of its intention to make such purchase, and shall 
proceed with and complete said arbitration. Said board of arbitra- 
tion shall be appointed as follows: One member by said grantee or 
his assigns; one member by the Common Council of the City of 
Holland, and the third member by the two arbitrators thus chosen. 
In case the said grantee or his assigns shall neglect or refuse to ap- 
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members cannot agree upon a third member of said board, such 
member or members of said board of arbitration shall be appointed 
by the Judge of the Circuit Court for the County of Ottawa. In 
arriving at a fair price at which said purchase shall be made by said 
city, the board of arbitration shall not take into consideration the 
value of this franchise or grant; but shall allow a fair value for the 
property acutally used by said grantee and his assigns in its busi- 
ness in this city and shall take into consideration as an element of 
value the earning capacity of said property and business as then 
established and existing. The price, terms of sale and times of pay- 
ments agreed upon by said board of arbitration or by a majority of 
the members thereof, shall constitute the basis of said sale, and the 
said grantee and his assigns shall be bound to abide thereby. Pro- 
vided, however ,and it is expressly stipulated, That should the City 
of Holland avail itself of the option to purchase the entire property 
hereinbefore named in this section when only ten (10) years have 
elapsed from and after the date of the passage of this ordinance, 
then and in that case the price awarded by the arbitrators, provid- 
ed for in this section, shall not be less than the actual cost of con- 
struction of this entire property hereinbefore mentioned in this sec- 
tion, on the basis of the ruling prices of material and labor at the 
time of construction. And provided further, That the city Shall 
not, by reason of the option to purchase, herein contained, be bar- 
red or estopped from erecting and maintaining a gas plant of its 
own and from selling and furnishing gas _ for fuel, illuminating 
and manufacturing purposes to the inhabitants of said city. 


Sec. 22. Said grantee or his assigns, shall within ten (10) 
days after the passage of this ordinance signify his acceptance in 
writing of the rights and privileges hereby granted and the condi- 
tions, specifications, limitations and reservations herein contained 
and file such acceptance with the City Clerk; and shall at the time 
of such acceptance deposit with the City Treasurer of said city a certi™ 
fied check or certificate of deposit from one of the banks of this 
city, payable to the order of the City Treasurer, for the sum of 
two thousand dollars ($2,000). Said deposit may be covered into 
the City Treasury absolutely and to become the property of the 
City of Holland and to be credited to the general fund thereof in 
case the said grantee and his assigns shall fail to have laid and 
completed for use at least forty thousand (40,000) feet of main 
pipe with the necessary service and meter connections within ten 
(10) months from the date of the acceptance of said ordinance, and 
Shall fail to complete its main pipe with all necessary service and con 
necting pipe to the curb on both sides of the street on Eighth street 
between the west line of River street and the Pere Marquette Rail- 
road crossing, before June ist, A. D. 1903. Provided, however, 
That in case the said grantee shall have fully completed its plant 
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ihe necessary service and meter connections as hereinbefore set 
forth within the time above specified; and shall have completed its 
line and connections on Highth street within the time specified, 
then said money is to be refunded to said grantee and his assigns. 

Sec. 23. This ordinance shall take effect from the date of 
its acceptance. 


No. 214 
AN ORDINANCE 


Describing Certain Duties of the City Clerk and His Deputy 
Passed May 4, 1903. Approved May 5, 1903. 


Sec. Sec. 


1. Appointment of Deputy 2. Duties of Deputy Clerk. 
Clerk. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk annually on or 
before the first Monday in May to gend in to the Common Council 
for their approval the name of the person whom he has appointed 
as his deputy; and in case of a vacancy thereafter in the office of 
such deputy it shall be his duty to send in to the Common Council 
for their approval the name of his successor within fifteen days af- 
ter vacancy shall have occurred. 

Sec. 2. Fhe said Deputy Clerk shall possess all the powers 
and authority of the City Clerk and may exercise all the duties 
thereof, subject to the control of the said Clerk, and said Clerk 
shall be responsible for all the acts and defaults of such deputy. 


Sec. 3. The salary of the Deputy Clerk shall be fixed annually 
by. the Common Council. 


Sec. 4. This ordinance shall take immediate effect. 


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No. 217 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Obstructing Streets and Sidewalks. 
Passed June 16, 1903 Approved June 17, 1903. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Dirt on streets. . 6. Injury to streets, etc. 
2. Building material. 7. Encroachments. . 
3. Conditions as to building 8. Removal of same. . 
material. 9. Manhole covers. 
4. Obstructions. - 10. Penalty. 


5. Goods on sidewaiks. Signs 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person. shall scatter, leave or distribute in any 
street, lane, alley or public place within the limits of the city, dirt 
of any description, carted or hauled about in wagons, carts or other 
vehicles; and any person using wagons, carts or other vehicles to 
haul dirt of any discription shall not load the same above the top 
of the side or end boards of such wagon, cart or other vehicle and 
the box of any such wagon, cart or other vehicle used for the pur- 
pose aforesaid, shall be constructed in such a manner as to prevent 
the distributing or scattering of dirt on the streets. 

Sec. 2. No person shall place or deposit any sand, mortar, 
gravel,earth, timber, or other building material of any nature in 
any street, alley or public place within the city, without first hav- 
ing obtained permission therefor from the Common Council 

Sec. 3. On request of any applicant, the Common Council 
may grant permission to any person or persons to deposit and keep 
building material in any of the streets or alleys of the city for a 
period not exceeding four months Such permit shall not authorize 
the obstruction of any part of the sidewalk or cross-walk, nor to 
exceed one-third of the carriage way of any street or alley adjoining 
the premises where such building is being erected; and no person 
shall occupy any such street or alley under authority of such permit 


‘for the storage of articles not intended for use in connection with 


the operations for which such permit has been issued or to se 
occupy such street or alley after the completion of the operation for 
which such permit was issued. Before any such permit shall be 
granted, an indemnity bond from such applicant, with sureties ap- 
proved by the Mayor, conditioned to save the City of Holland harm- 
less from all claims or demands for loss or injury sustained by any 
person by reason of the occupancy of such street with such building 
material, and conditicned to remove all obstructions and rubbish 
from such street immediately upon the completion of the proposed 
work, shall be given. 


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Sec. 4. No person shall place or cause to be placed or keep 
or suffer to remain, any timber, box, cask or other article in anv 
street or alley or on any sidewalk of said city so as to incommode 
or obstruct the free use and passage thereof; but this section shall 
not be considered to prohibit merchants and others from placing 
goods and merchandise, household furniture and other commodities 
on the sidewalk for the purpose of loading or unloading, provided 
the same be removed without any reasonable delay. 

Sec. 5. No person shall place any goods, wares, merchandise 
or other articles in front of any store, shop or other building furth- 
er than three feet on the sidewalk next the building; and no owner 
or occupant of any building shall cause or permit any firewood to 
be placed or remain or to be cut or split on any sidewalk, nor shall 
he suffer the same to be placed or remain in the street further than 
five feet from the outer edge of the sidewalk, and then only for the 
purpose of being cut and not to remain more than one day; and no 
person shall put up or maintain any sign, flag or banner in front of 
his store or place of business that shall project further than three 
feet from the front of the building into the street. No awning or 
awnings shall be allowed that shall drop down at the ends or sides 
or at any other place lower than six and one-half (6%) feet of the 
sidewalk, nor extend from the store front more than nine feet. No 
person shall hang out goods for dispay or otherwise at a distance of 
more than three feet out from the line of the street in front of the 
building. . No sign shall be permitted to hang or to be hung at any 
point in the street further out than three feet thereof and no sign 
shall be kept, put up or supported by means of a cord, line, wire or 
other thing that shall extend across any street except by special per- 
mission of the Common Council. 

Sec. 6. No person shall injure or tear up any pavement, side- 
walk or crosswalk, drain or sewer, or any part thereof, or make any 
excavation in any public street, or remove any earth or stone there- 
from, or change the grade of any street by filling in any earth, stone 
sand or gravel, or by removing any substance therefrom, without 
first obtaining permission from the Common Council. 

Sec. 7. In case any building, fence or other improvement 
which now is or may hereafter be erected within the City of Holland 
shall extend to or in any manner encroach upon or obstruct any part, 
of any highway, street or alley, the City Marshal shall, when order- 
ed to do so by the Common Council, serve a writen notice on the 
Owner or occupant thereof, if resident, and if not a resident, by 
posting the same in a conspicuous place thereon, specifying the loca- 
tion and extent of such encroachment and requiring such owner 
within thirty days to remove the same from off such street or alley; 
and if such owner shall not within the time specified in such notice, 
Temove such obstruction or encroachment, such owner shall be li- 
able to the punishment hereinafter provided. 


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Sec. 8. In addition to the penalty provided in the last pre- 
ceding section, the Common Council may direct the City Marshal 
to remove such encrachment or obstruction at any time after the 
expiration of the time specified in such notice, at the expense of 
said owner or occupant, who shall be laible to pay the same. 

Sec. 9. No person or persons shall place, construct or main- 
tain on any sidewalk in any street, any manhole cover or other cov- 
er over any opening or passageway under any sidewalk that shall 
project above the surface line of said sidewalk; and all such cover- 
ings and manhole covers,so-called, now maintained and hereafter 
constructed, shall be so placed or replaced that the top thereof shall 
be even with the surface line of said sidewalk. All such manhole 
covers and similar coverings shall be so constructed as to prevent 
the same from becoming slippery and dangerous to public travel. 

Sec. 10. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
not exceeding $100 and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment 
in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County for a period not 
exceeding ninety days; and in case a fine and costs only shall be 
imposed, the offender can be sentenced to be imprisoned in the city 
jail or County jail, of Ottawa County until the payment of such fine 
and costs, for a term not exceeding ninety days. 

Sec. 11. An ordinance entitled ‘“‘“An Ordinance Relative to Ob- 
structing Streets and Sidewalks,’’ passed April 6, 1886, and approv- 
ed April 7, 1886, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 224 
AN ORDINANCE 


To License and Regulate the Constructing, Rebuilding, and Re- 
pairing of Sidewaiks, Crosswalks and Curbs, 
in the City of Holland. 


Passed May 17, 1905. Approved May 18, 1905. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Sidewalk builders’ license. 4. Guards and lights. 
2. Permit. 5. Penalty. 


3. Regulations. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. Before any person shall engage in the business or oc-~ 
cupation of constructing, rebuilding, or repairing of sidewalks, cross- 
walks or curbs in the City of Holland ,he shall apply to the Common 
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or occupation. Such application shall be in writing and shall be ac- 
companied by a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, con- 
ditioned for the faithful observance of all rules, regulations and 
ordinances imposed by said city relating to such business and oc- 
cupation, and to hold the City of Holland free from all loss, injury 
or damage by reason of the constructing, rebuilding, or repairing of 
any sidewalks, crosswalks or curbs in the City of Holland. The sum 
of money to be paid for such annual license shall be five dollars, and 
such license shall expire on the first Monday in June each year. The 
bond provided for in this section shall be renewed annually. . 


Sec. 2. In addition to the application for license above provid 
ed for, such person, so licensed, shall apply to the City Clerk of said 
City, for a permit for each sidewalk, crosswalk or curb to be con- 
structed, re-built, or repaired, specifying the location of the side- 
walk, crosswalk or curb, to be constructed, rebuilt or repaired, and 
the material with which such sidewalk, crosswalk or curb is to be 
constructed, re-built or repaired. (As amended by Ordinance No. 
250, Approved May 28, 1907.) 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the person so licensed and so 
permitted as required in sections one and two of this ordinance, be- 
fore he shall commence any such work, first to take such permit to 
the City Engineer and from him secure the placing of stakes for line 
and grade. Swcech licensee shall construct, rebuild or repair such 
sidewalk, crosswalk or curb in accordance with the grade fixed by 
the Common Council and the stakes placed and set by the City 
Engineer, and under the supervision and direction of the City 
Kingineer, in the manner and of the materials required by any rule, 
regulation or ordinance now in force or which may hereafter be 
passed, which relates to such business or occupation, or which pro- 
vides for the protection of streets, pavements, curbs and gutters, 
or which provides for the safety of the public; and to build such 
sidewalk, crosswalk or curb with all possible dispatch, and in a man- 
ner least calculated to obstruct public traffic. Such licensee shall 
immediately, upon the completion of such work, so permitted, secure 
the certificate of the City Engineer, endorsed upon such permit, ap- 
proving the material used and manner of work done and showing 
such work has been completed in accordance with line and grade so 
set by him and to forthwith return such permit, so certified, to rhe 
City Clerk of said City, to be by him filed. (As amended by Ordin- 
ance No. 250, approved May 28, 1907.) 

Sec. 4. It shall also be the duty of the person constructing, 
rebuilding or repairing any such sidewalk, crosswalk or curb to 
place, and keep placed at all times, proper guards for public safety 
around such space as shall be occupied with such work or materials, 
and if it shall be necessary for such space, materials, sidewalk, 
crosswalk or curb to stand over night while such work is in pro-= 
gress, the person having charge thereof shall place good and suffic- 


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ient lights, shining a bright red light upon the same, as a warning 
to persons passing over said street or streets of the situation there- 
of, and such light or lights shall be kept burning during the night. 

Sec. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and cost of prosecution, or 
by imprisonment in the city jail or county jail of the County of 
Ottawa for a period not exceeding ninety days; and in case a fine 
and cost only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced to be 
imprisoned in the city or county jail-of Ottawa County until the 
payment of such fine and cost for a term not exceeding ninety days. 

Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 227 
AN ORDINANCE 


Governing the Erection and Maintenance of Electric Signs 
Passed July 7, 1905. Approved July 8, 1905. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Electric signs. 5. Penalty. 

2. Location of signs. Permit. 6. Removal. 

3. Fees. 7. Lighting of signs. 


4, Construction and hanging. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm or 
corporation, to erect or maintain over any sidewalk, street, avenue 
or alley, in the City of Holland, any electric signs, except as author- 
ized in this ordinance. An electric sign is hereby @eclared to be a 
sign all the letters of which are made in outline of incandescent 
lamps, wholly transparent glass signs lighted with electric lamps, 
and signs with flush painted or raised letters with a continuous 
border of incandescent lamps which shall be so placed that there 
shall be a distance of not to exceed twelve inches between each 
lamp. 

Sec. 2. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to erect or 
maintain an electric sign, as provided in said first section hereof, 
shall make application to the City Clerk on printed forms to be 
furnished by said City Clerk. The desired location of any such sign 
shall first be approved by the Superintendent of Public Works, and 
such approval shall be endorsed on said application. The applicant 
shall pay the fee herein required to the City Clerk, and a memoran- 
dum of such payment shall be endorsed on the application, and such 
fee must be paid into the city treasury. The City Clerk shall be 
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such final permit shall be issued, the Superintendent of Public 
Works shall by inspection ascertain whether such sign is construct- 
ed in accordance with this ordinance, and the rules and regulations 
adopted by the Common Council for the placing of electric signs. 
No such sign or signs shall be used or operated by electric current 
previous to the issuing of the electric permit. No alterations shall 
be made on any such sign, unless authorized by the Common Coun- 
Cit: No such sign shall be permitted to hang or be hung at any 
point in the street, avenue or alley, further out than six feet from 
the general building line. If any such sign shall at any time need 
repairing, the same shall be repaired at the expense of the owner, 
and whenever the owner shall be given notice by the City Marshal 
to repair his sign and such owner shall fail to comply therewith 
within three days, the Common Council may cause the same to be 
removed. 


Sec. 3. There shall be paid to the city for permits issued, the 
following fee, to-wit: For all projecting signs, vertical as well as 
horizontal, of from fifty lights or less, $1.00; for signs of fifty to 
one hundred lights $1.50; and for signs of one hundred lights and 
upwards, the sum of $2.00. 


Sec. 4. The Common Council shall adopt rules governing the 
manner of construction and support of such electric signs, which 
rules and regulations shall provide for the necessary requirements 
of construction and support in detail. And all applicants for per: 
mits shall, in the application made, agree to abide py and follow 
all such rules and regulations adopted or to be adopted by the saia 
Common Council. Signs erected under authority of this ordinance 
overhanging any sidewalk, street, avenue or alley must be placed 
at least ten feet above the sidewalk, street, avenue or alley. 

Sec. 5. Any person, firm or corporation erecting or maintain- 
ing an electric sign or using any electric current in violation of any 
of the provisions of this ordinance or of the rules and regulations 
adopted by the said Common Council, shall be subject to a penalty 
of not less than five dollars and not more than a hundred dollars. 
and to a like penalty for each day during which he, they or it shall 
continue such violation. The Common Council shall for any viola- 
tion of this ordinance, order and compel the discontinuance of the 
supply of the current of electricity used in the lighting of said 
signs, and if deemed necessary, may cause the removal of such signs 
until the provisions of this ordinance are fully complied with by the 
owner or person using the same. Provided, That the provisions of 
this ordinance shall not be construed to conflict with any action tak- 
en by the Common Council of the City of Holland, under the pro- 
visions of an ordinance entitled ‘“‘An Ordinance Relative to Obstruct- 
ing Streets and Sidewalks,’ approved June 17, 1908. 


Sec. 6. Any and all signs erected under the provision of this 
ordinance may be removed at any time by resolution of the Com- 


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mon Council, for violation of any of the rules and regulations here- 
in provided for, and adopted or to be adopted by the Common Coun- 
cil. 

Sec. 7. Such sign, when overhanging a _ sidewalk, street, 
avenue or alley, shall be lighted on both sides, and all signs erected 
under this ordinance shall be kept illuminated for one hour during 
the evening of every secular day. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. i 


No. 229 
AN ORDINANCE 


Prescribing Certain Duties of the Justices of the Peace of the 
City of Holland 


Passed November 1, 1905. Approved November 2, 1905. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Bond of Justice. 5. Money and Stolen Property 
2. Docket. 6. City Attorney to Order Is- 
3. Fines to be Paid to City. suing of Warrant. 

4. Report to Council. 7. Penalty. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of every Justice of the Peace of the 
City of Holland before entering upon the duties of his office, in 
addition to any other security required by the law to be given for 
the performance of his official duties, to give a bond to the City 
of Holland in a penal sum of one thousand dollars, with sufficient 
sureties, to be approved by the Mayor, which approval shall be 
endorsed upon the bond conditioned, for the faithful performance 
of the duties of the Justice of the Peace, within and for the city. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of every Justice of the Peace of the 
city to enter in the docket kept by him, the title of all suits and 
prosecutions commenced or prosecuted before him for violations of 
the ordinances of the city, and all the proceedings, and the judg- 
ment rendered in every such cause, and the items of all costs taxed 
or allowed therein; and also the amounts and date of payment of 
all fines, penalties and forfeitures, moneys and costs received by 
him on account of such suit or proceeding. Such docket shall be 
submitted by the Justice at all times to the examination of any per- 
son desiring to examine the same, and shall be produced by the 
Justice to the Council whenever required. 


Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of every Justice of the Peace of 
the city to pay, excepting costs of prosecution, to the City Treasurer 
all fines, penalties and forfeitures collected or received for or on ac- 


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count of violations of the penal laws of the state, and for and on 
account of violations of any of the ordinances of the city on or be- 
fore the first Monday of the month next after the collection or re- 
ceipt thereof; and the Justice shall take the receipt of the City 
Treasurer therefore and immediately file the same with the City 
Clerk. 


Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of every Justice of the Peace of ; 


the city to report on oath to the Common Council, at the first regu- 
lar meeting thereof in each month, the name of every person 
against whom a prosecution has been commenced, or judgment 
rendered, the date and disposition in every such cause, and the 
amount of the fines, penalties or forfeitures, costs of prosecu:ions, 
and all moneys collected and received by such Justices, for or on ac- 
count of violations of the penal laws of the State, or of any of the 
ordinances of the City, and the amount thereof paid to the City 
Treasurer since the last preceding report. (As Amended by Ordin- 
ance No. 230; Approved December 7, 1905.) 


Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of every Justice of the Peace of 
the city to account on oath to the Common Council, at the first. meet- 
ing in each month, for all such moneys, goods, wares and property 
seized or stolen property, as shall then remain unclaimed in his 
office, and to make such disposition thereof as shall be prescribed by 
the ordinances of the city. 

Sec. 6. It shall not be lawful hereafter for Justices of the 
Peace of the city to issue warrants for or on account of violations 
of any of the ordinances of the city, except breach of the peace com- 
mitted in the presence of the officer making the arrest, until an 
order in writing, allowing the same, is filed with such Justice, and 
signed by the City Attorney, or unless security for costs shall have 
been filed with said Justice. 

Sec. 7. Any Justice of the Peace of the City of Holland who 
shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, or who shall 
be guilty of misconduct in office, upon conviction thereof, shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and costs 
of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail 
of the County of Ottawa for a period not exceeding ninety days; and 
in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be 
sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail, or county iail of Ottawa 
County until the payment of such fine and costs, for a term not ex- 
ceeding ninety days. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 231 
AN ORDINANCE 


».To Prohibit Spitting upon Sidewalks, Crosswalks and upon the 


Floors and Walls of Public Halls, Theatres, 
Churches and Street Cars. 


Passed March 21, 1906. Approved March 22, 1906. 


1. No spitting’ etc. 
2. Penalty. 
3. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall spit or expectorate or deposit or place 
any sputum, spittle, saliva, phlegm, mucus or tobacco juice upon 
any part of any sidewalk or crosswalk in the City of Holland, or 
upon any part of the floors or walls of public halls, theatres, church- 
es, or upan the floors or any inside equipment or furnishings or in 
any place upon the outside or upon any platform of any street 
car, while the same is in use upon any of the strets or highway: 
of the City of Holland. 

Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance shall be deemed a disorderly person, and upon con- 
viction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding Fifty 
dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the City 
jail or County jail of the County of Ottawa for a period not exceed- 
ing sixty days; and in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed, 
the offender may be sentenced to be imprisoned in the City jail or 
County jail of Ottawa County, until the payment of such fine and 
costs for a term not exceeding sixty days. 

Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage, 


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No. 232 
AN ORDINANCE 


To Prohibit the Free Distribution of Samples of Patent Medicine 
Drugs, Ointments, Pills, Powders, Pellets, and other 
Medicated Articles, upon the streets or from 
house to house in the City of Holland 


Passed March 21, 1906 Approved March 22, 1906. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. No Distribution of Patent 2. Penalty. 
Medicines, etc. 3. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 

Sec. 1. No person, persons, company or corporation, person- 
ally or by agents or employees’ shall gratuitously distribute 
samples of patent medicine, drugs, ointments, pills, powders, 
pellets, or other medicated articles from house to house or on the 
streets, alleys or public places in the City of Holland without pro- 
curing a license therefor; provided that no license therefor shall 
be issued unless the Health Officer of the City shall approve of 
the sample or samples and the formula of the medicine, drug, oint- 
ment, pill, powder, pellet or other medicated article proposed to 
- be distributed, and his approval certified by him shall first be filed 
with the City Clerk of said city; and for each license issued there- 
for there shall be paid to the City a fee of one dollar per day for 
each person distributing the same; and any other distribution of 
any of said articles is hereby prohibited and made subject to the 
penalty provided in the next section hereof; And provided that 
before such license shall be granted, the applicant shall file with 
the City Clerk a bond running to the People of the State of Michi- 
gan in the penal sum of Twenty-five hundred dollars with sureties 
to be approved by the Mayor, Clerk and City Attorney-—whose ap- 
proval shall be endorsed thereon—conditioned that the person, 
firm or corporation distributing such samples shall pay all dam- 
ages resulting to any person by reason of taking or using any of 
such samples. 

Sec. 2. Any person, firm or corporation, his, her, their, or its 
officers, agents or employees, who shall violate any of the provis- 
ions of this ordinance on conviction thereof shall be punished by a 
fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and costs of prosecution, or by im. 
prisonment in the City jail or County jail of the County of Ottawa, 
for a period not exceeding sixty days; and in case a fine and costs 
only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced to be impri- 
soned in the City jail or county jail of Ottawa county until the 
payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding ninety 
days. 

Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 2385 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Tavern Keepers, Hotel Keepers, Restaurant Keep- 
ers, Keepers of Eating Houses and Houses 
of Public Entertainment 


Passed April 11, 1906. Approved April 12, 1906. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. To obtain license. 5. What prohibited. 

2. Application. 6. May be revoked. 

8. Bond. 7. Penalty. 

4. Fee. 8. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall keep any tavern, hotel, restaurant, 
eating house or house of public entertainment in this city without 
first obtaining a license for that purpose from the Common Coun- 
cil, pursuant the provisions of this ordinance. 

Sec. 2. Every person desiring to keep any tavern, hotel, 
restaurant, eating house, or house of public entertainment, within 
the limits of the City of Holland, shall make application in writing 
to the Common Council for an annual license to engage in such 
business, specifying the house, and street in which he, she or they 
intend to keep same which application shall be accompanied with 
the names of the persons offered as sureties and a recommenda- 
tion signed by at least six respectable citizens of good reputation, 
certifying to the good reputation, fair name and moral character of 
the applicant, and his, her or their orderly behavior, and shall 
file a bond as hereinafter provided, and the Common Council may 
thereupon grant or with-hold a license to such applicant; but no 
tavern keeper or hotel keeper shall be licensed unless he also 
shows that he is possessed of accomodation for at least six guests. 

Sec. 3. Before such applicants shall be entitled to receive 
such license, or to keep such open house, or do such business in 
pursuance thereof, such applicant shall execute a bond with such 
surety or sureties as shall be approved by the Common Council, to 
the city of Holland, in the penal sum of Five Hunared dollars; 
conditioned that, such applicant shall keep and maintain an orderly 
and well regulated house during the continuance of such license, 
and shall keep and preserve all such rules, regulations and ordin- 
ances as may be prescribed by the Common Council and the gener- 
al laws of the State regulating such house or business with the 
city. The bond provided for in this section shall be renewed an- 
nually. 

Sec. 4. After the granting of such application by the Com- 
mon Council, and before a license shall be issued the applicant 


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shall pay into the City Treasury the sum of five dollars, and such 
license shall expxire on the first Monday in June of each year. 

Sec. 5. No tavern keeper, hotel keeper, restaurant keeper, 
keeper of an eating house and keeper of house of public entertain- 
ment, shall permit in or about his, her or their premises any noise, 
riot, or disturbance, or permit any dice, cards or games of chance 
to be played in such house or upon such premises for money or 
other thing of value, or the betting of money or property upon the 
result of any such game, nor for immoral purposes, harbor or per- 
mit any person in or about his, her or their house or premises, nor 
permit any person to become intoxicated in such house or upon 
such premises, or allow persons, who are intoxicated, to remain in 
such house to the anoyance of guests or of the public. 

Sec. 6. Any license granted and issued under the provisions 
of this ordinance, may be revoked by the Common Council, when- 
ever it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Council, that the 
parties so licensed shall have violated any provisions of this ordin- 
ance or condition of the bond aforesaid. 

Sec. 7. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the 
provisions or requirements of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, 
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and 
costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail or the 
County jail of the County of Ottawa, in the discretion of the court 
or magistrate before whom the conviction may be had, for a period 
not exceeding ninety lays: and in case a fine and costs only shall 
be imposed, the offender may be imprisoned in the city jail or 
county jail of the county of Ottawa, until the payment of such fine 
and costs for a term not exceeding ninety days. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 247 
AN ORDINANCE 
Licensing and Regulating Bowling Alleys, Billiard Tables, Pool 
Tables, and Other Gaming Tables. 
Passed May 1, 1907. Approved May 1, 1907, 


Sec. Sec. 

1. To obtain lincense. 6. Curtains, screens, etc, 
2. Application. % Penalty. 

3. Fee. 8. Repealing clause. 


4. May be revoked. 9. When to take effect, 
5. Who not permitted in. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 
Sec. 1. No person shall, for hire, gain or reward, keep or 
maintain a bowling alley, billiard table, pool table, Manhattan 


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table or any other gaming table, within the limits of the City of 
Holland, without first having obtained from the Common Council 


‘a license therefor, in the manner hereinafter provided. 


Sec. 2. Every person desiring to keep for hire, charge or re- 
ward a bowling alley, billiard table, pool table, Manhattan table, or 
any other gaming table within the city, shall each year before en- 
tering upon such business, make application in writing to the Com- 
mon Council; which application shall specify the location and de- 
scribe completely the interior arrangement and entrances of the 
place in which he intends to keep the same, which location shall 
not be in any place where intoxicating liquors are furnished, sold 
or kept for sale, nor in any place used in connection with, or con- 
nected by any opening with any such place, and such location shall 
only be on a ground floor space. In case of a firm such application 
shall set forth the names of all the parties constituting such firm, 
and such application shall designate particularly what kind and 
how many such gaming tables such person desires to keep. Such 
application shall further specify the name of the persons who are 
to be in charge of such bowling alley, billiard table, Manhattan 
table or other gaming table and shall contain an agreement that no 
other persons than those so named shall be put in charge of such 
tables or alleys except with the consent of the Common Council 
(As amended by Ordinance No 283. Approved April 4, 1912.) 

Sec. 3. After the granting of such application by the Conimon 
Council, and before the issuing of the license the applicant shall 
pay into the City Treasury the sum of twenty five dollars annually 
for said license for keeping and maintaining for hire, gain or re- 
ward, two such tables or alleys, and the sum of five dollars an- 
nually for each additional table or alley kept and maintained by 
such person in the same place. Such applicant shall file the city 
treasurer’s receipt therefor with the city clerk, and shall execute 
a bond to the City of Holland in the sum of one thousand dollars, 
with twe sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Common Coun- 
cil, conditioned that he will faithfully observe all the requirements 
of the ordinance of the City of Holland licensing and regulating 
bowling alleys, billiard tables, pool tables, and other gaming tables, 
and that he shall keep and maintain an orderly and well regulated 
place during the continuance of such lincense, and shall pay all 
fines and cost imposed upon him for the violation of any of the 
provisions of this ordinance. 

Sec. 4. Every license provided for by the terms of this ordin- 
ance shall be granted upon the condition and shall expressly 
provide that after personal service of written notice thereof to the 
licensee of their intention to revoke such license, and after reason- 
able opportunity to be heard thereupon before the Common Council 
such license may for any non-compliance with the terms and con- 
ditions upon which it is granted, or on account of any violation of 
any of the provisions of this or of any ordinance of the City of Hol- 


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land, in the discretion of the Common Council, be by them revoked, 
and that any person holding such license shall, in addition to any 
and all other penalities imposed, thereupon forfeit all payments 
made for such license. 

Sec. 56. No person licensed as hereinbefore provided, shall, 
by himself, his clerk or agent, suffer or permit any minor child 
under seventeen years of age, or any minor who is a student in any 
public, private or parochial schools of the State of Michigan, to re- 
main in his place of business or to play at any such bowling alley, 
billiard table, pool table, Manhattan table or any other gaming 
table; nor shall he, by himself, his clerk or agent, suffer or permit 
any person to play at any such table or alley for the purpose of 
betting or gambling. 

Sec. 6. No curtains, screens, partions, or other thing shall ob- 
struct the view from the sidewalk, street, alley or road in front of 
or at the side or end of any building, room, or place where any 
bowling alley, billiard table, pool table, Manhattan table or any 
other gaming table is kept or maintained within the limits of the 
city of Holland; and no intoxicating liquors shall be sold, kept 
for sale or drank upon any premises where such tables or alleys 
are kept or maintained nor shall any intoxicating liquors be deliv- 
ered to such places; and no person licensed as herein provided and 
no person in charge of such alleys or tables shall suffer or permit 
any drinking or delivery of intoxicating liquors upon such premis- 
es; and no person licensed as hereinbefore provided shall suffer 
or permit any game to be played in any such table or alley between 
the hours of Eleven o’clock in the afternoon and six o’clock in the 
morning of each week day nor on Sundays and until the hour of 
six o’clock in the morning after Sunday. (As amended by Ordin- 
ance No. 283. Approved April 4, 1912.) 


Sec. 7. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
not exceeding fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, or by im- 
prisonment in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa county for a 
period of not exceeding thirty days; and in case a fine and costs 
only shall be imposed the offender may be sentenced to imprison- 
ment in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa county until the pay- 
ment of such fine and costs for a term not exceeding thirty days. 

Sec. 8. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Licensing and 
Regulating Billiard Tables, Pool Tables, and Other Gaming Tables” 
passed June 8, 1902, and approved June 4, 1902, is hereby re- 
pealed. 


Sec. 9. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 249 
AN ORDINANCE 


To License and Regulate the Moving of Buildings through the 
Public Streets of the City of Holland 


Passed May 138, 1907. ..Approved May 14, 1907. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Application and Bond. 5. Penalty. 

2. Application and route, 6. Repealing Clause. 

8. Duties. 7. When to take effect. 


4. Wires and Cables. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. Before any person shall engage in the business or oc- 
cupation of moving buildings into and upon the public streets and 
avenues of the City of Holland, he shall apply to the common 
Council of said city for, and be granted a license to engage in such 
business or occupation. Such application shall be in writing and 
shall be accompanied by a bond in the penal sum of two thousand 
dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the 
common council, conditioned for the faithful observance of all 
rules, regulations and ordinances imposed by said city relating to 
such business and occupation, and to hold the City of Holland free 
from all loss, injury or damages by reason of the moving of any 
building through the public streets or avenues of said city. 


Sec. 2. Before any person shall move any building into and 
upon the public streets and avenues of the City of Holland, he 
shall also make a written application to the Common Council of 
said City for a permit for each and every building to be moved, 
which application shall desribe the condition of any such building, 
and shall specify the location from and to which such building is 
to be moved, and the route over which it is proposed to move such 
building. Such application shall also have the approval of the pro- 
posed route endorsed thereon by the street commissioner over his 
signature, and shall state that satisfactory arrangements have 
been made by the applicant for the temporary removal of all wires 
and cables, if any, mentioned in Section four of this ordinance; 
provided, that the Common Council may refuse to grant a permit 
if any such building be offensive, unsightly, ruinous or otherwise 
objectionable. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the person so permitted to follow 
the route prescribed by the Common Council, to observe all rules, 
regulations and ordinances now in force and which may be here- 
after passed for the protection of paved streets and regulating 
such business or occupation, to observe the directions of the street 


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commissioner in regard to the use of the streets and avenues of 
such route; and to move such building with all dispatch and in a 
manner least calculated to obstruct public travel of said streets 
and avenues so occupied. No person shall leave any building, 
while in progress of removal, standing over any street or avenue 
crossing at any time, and if it shall be necessary for such building 
to stand over night in any street, avenue or public place, the person 
having charge thereof shall place good and sufficient lights, shin- 
ing a bright red light, upon the same as a warning to persons pass- 
ing over such street or avenue, of the situation thereof, and such 
light or lights shall be kept burning during the night. 

Sec. 4. If it shall be found that in moving any building said 
building will come in contact with the wires or cables of the city 
or that the lines, wires or cables of any person, firm or corporation 
holding franchise rights within the city limits or having authority 
to string such wires or cables in connection therewith, such licen- 
see shall forthwith notify the proper municipal officer or the 
principal local officer or agent of such person, firm, or corporation 
holding such franchise rights, or both, as the case may be, that the 


moving of said building will interfere with such wires or cables. 


It shall also be the duty of such licensee to thereupon pay or ar- 
range for payment to such officer or agent the actual expense of 
removing and replacing such equipment. If such expense so to be 
paid shall be paid to a municipal officer the same shall be deposit- 
ed with the city treasurer and credited to the proper fund. And if 
it shall be found that in moving any buildings the overhead equip- 
ment or the operation of cars of the street railway system shall be 
interfered with, such building shall be moved, if possible or prac- 
ticable, across or along the tracks of said railway between the 
hours of 12 o’clock midnight and 5 o’clock of the next morning. 

Sec. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, ot 
by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of the County ot 
Ottawa for a period of not exceeding ninety days; and in case w& 
fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentencea 
to imprisonment in the city jail or County Jail of Ottawa county, 
until payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding ninety 
days. 


See. 6. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance to License and’ 


Regulate the Moving of Buildings through the Public streets of 
the City of Holland,” passed May 19, 1903 and approved May 20, 
1903, and all ordinances and part thereof in conflict with this 
ordinance are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 251 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Constructing, Relaying and Repairing Sidewalks. 
Passed May 27, 1907. Approved May 28, 1907. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Width. 6. If owner does not lay. 
2. How to be laid. 7. Charges and assessments. 
3. Grade. 8. Repairs. 
4. Notices. 9. Repealing clause. 
5. How served, if vacant. 10. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. That the sidewalks on the several streets and avenues 
of the City shall be and the same are hereby established of the fol- 
lowing width, unless otherwise authorized by resolution of the 
Common Council, towit: On Eighth street, between River street 
and College avenue, twelve feet, and between College avenue and 
Land street, eight feet; on River street between Fifth street and 
Hleventh street, ten feet; and between Eleventh street and Twelfth 
street, eight feet; on Central avenue between Highth street and 
Twelfth street, eight feet; and on all other streets and avenues 
and parts of streets and avenues, six feet. 


Sec. 2. Sidewalks hereafter constructed, relaid or repaired 
within the City of Holland shall be constructed, relaid or repaired 
of cement, as follows:— All sidewalks shall be laid on a foundation 
consisting of not less than six inches of clean sand, gravel or cin- 
ders, well consolidated to give proper stability by wetting and roll- 
ing or ramming. All soft and spongy places not affording a firm 
footing must be dug out and replaced with sand or gravel well com- 
pacted by ramming. Such foundation must be brought to within 
four inches of the grade. A layer of portland cement concrete four 
inches in thickness shall be placed on the foundation thus prepar- 
ed, such concrete shall be composed of one part approved portland 
cement, and seven parts of broken stone or gravel, which shall not 
exceed two and one-half inches in any dimension, and clean sharp 
sand; the latter to be of such proportion that the sand shall fill the 
voids in the gravel, and the voids in the mixture shall not exceed 
one seventh of the volume. After a thorough dry mixing, water 
shall be added in sufficient quantity, only, to give a surplus of 
moisture when rammed. A finishing layer three-fourths of an inch 
in thickness shall be laid before the concrete has set, which layer 
shall consist of one part approved portland cement and two: parts 
of clean sharp sand. The surface of the sidewalk thus laid shall 
be thoroughly trowelled and floated smooth, and marked with an 
inprint of toothed roller. All sidewalks shall be cut in separated 


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blocks of not more than four feet in length and not exceeding eight 
feet in width. 

Sec. 3. All sidewalks constructed under the provision of this 
ordinance shall be brought to a grade fixed by the Common Council 
and it shall be the duty of the City Engineer to set proper grade 
and line stakes for such walks whenever the same shall have been 
permitted or ordered. 

Sec. 4. Whenever the Common Council shall by resolution 
have determined that a sidewalk be constructed or relaid in any 
of the streets or avenues of the City, and shall have required the 
owners or occupant of the lots or premises abutting thereon to con- 
struct or relay the same, it shall be the duty of the City Engineer 
to serve or cause to be served a written or printed notice upon such 
owners or occupants of the lots or premises abutting thereon to con- 
struct or relay such sidewalk adjacent to and abutting upon their 
respective lots or premises within such time and in such manner 
and of such materials as shall be required in the resolution. Pro- 
vided, however, that such time shall be less than thirty days from 
the date of service of such notice. 

Sec. 5. If any lot or premises in front of, or adjacent to 
which any sidewalk is ordered to be constructed, or relaid, shall 
be unoccupied or the owner or occupant thereof cannot be found 
in the City, or if the owner thereof be unknown, the City Engineer 
shall serve such notice by posting or causing to be posted the same 
in a conspicuous place on such lot or premises. 

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of every person so notified, to 
construct, or relay the same in the manner and within the time 
required in the resolution of the Common Council ordering the 
game, and under the general supervision and direction of the City 
Engineer. In case any sidewalk shall not be constructed or relaid 
within the time specified by the Common Council, or in the manner 
required by the provisions of this ordinance, the City Engineer 
shall construct or relay the same, unless otherwise ordered by the 
Common Council, and shall keep an accurate account of the ex- 
pense of such construction, or relaying, including his own time at 
the rate of four dollars per day, the amount of which said expenses. 
properly itemized, shall be reported by him to the Common Coun- 
cil, duly vertified; such report shall also contain a description of 
the lot or premises upon or in respect to which the expense was in- 
curred, and the name of the owner, or person, if known, chargeable 
therewith. The cost of the expense of the construction or relaying 
of such sidewalk shall be a lien upon the lot or premises adjacent 
thereto until the same shall be paid. 

Sec. 7. The amounts charged against the several lots or 
premises under the provisions of the foregoing section of this 
ordinance, shall annually, in the month of September, he reported 
by the City Clerk to the Board of Assessors for assessment, in the 


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manner prescribed by the charter. To the amount thus charged to 
each description, the City Clerk shall add and place, in a separate 
column, the legal interest, computed from the date of the report 
of the City Engineer to the first day of February next ensuing, and 
shall also add, in an additional column, the sum of one dollar for 
the expense of assessment and advertising. Any person may pay 
the amount thus charged against any lot or premises, with legal 
interest computed thereon to the date of payment, to the City 
Treasurer, at any time before the same shall have been reported 
to the Board of Assessors for assessment. Receipts for such pay- 
ments shall be issued by the City Treasurer, in duplicate, and shall 
be countersigned by the City Clerk, and one copy thereof filed with 
him. 


Sec. 8. Whenever any sidewalk shall be found out of repair, 
it shall be the duty of the City Engineer to give or cause to be 
given the owner or occupant of any lot or premises adjacent to such 
sidewalk, a written or printed notice to repair the same within 
two days, after the service of such notice. If the lot or premises 
are unoccupied, or if the owner be a non-resident of the City, or 
cannot be found within the City, the City Engineer shall serve the 
notice in the manner as hereinbefore provided for the construction 
of a sidewalk. If such sidewalk shall not be repaired within the 
time fixed by such notice, then it shall be the duty of the City 
Engineer to proceed forthwith to repair such sidewalk at the ex- 
pense of the owner of such lot or premises ,and he shall keep an 
itemized account of all expenses thus incurred, which shall be re- 
ported by him to the Common Council in the same manner as is 
hereinbefore provided in cases where sidewalks are constructed by 
him, and such expenses shall be payable, and the collection thereof 
enforced, in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided for the 
assessment and collection of expenses incurred in the construction 
of sidewalks by the City Engineer. 

Sec. 9. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Relative to 
Constructing and Repairing Sidewalks,’’ passed June 29, 1897, ap- 
proved June 30, 1897, and amended May 18, 1905, and all ordi- 
nances and parts thereof in conflict with this ordinance are hereby 
repealed. 


Sec. 10. This ordinance shall take immediate effect. 


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No. 252 
AN ORDINANCE 


Establishing a Board of Health and Defining its Powers. 
Passed July 27, 1907. Approved July 23, 1907. : 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Board Created. 9. Sanitary Rules. 
2. Members of. 10. Removal and Abatement 
8. Officers and Meetings. of Nuisances. . 
4. Rules. 11. Expenses, 
5. Clerk. 12. Penalty. 
6. Inspector. 13. Repealing Clause. 
7 Powers. 14. When to take effect. 


8. Additional powers. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. That the Board of Health of the city of Holland be 
and is hereby created and established. 

Sec. 2. The Mayor, City Attorney, Health Officer and two 
members, electors of the city, to be appointed by the Common 
Council, and to hold their office for the term of twc years each, 
shall constitute the Board of Health of the City of Holland. 
Provided, however, that the appointed members of the Board of 
Health as it is constituted at the time of the passage of this ordi- 
nance, shall hold their offices until the expiration of the time for 
which they were respectively appointed; and thereafter one mem- 
ber shall be appointed each year in the manner and at the time 
provided in the City Charter for the appointment of officers. 

Sec. 3. The Mayor shall be, ex-officio, the President of the 
Board. On the third Monday in May, in each year, the Board shall 
hold its first regular meeting, and the Board shall hold at least 
one meeting in each month. <A majority of all the members of the 
Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, 
but a less number may adjourn from time to time. The Board 
shall meet in the rooms of the Common Council, unless adjourned 
to meet in some other place. 

Sec. 4. The Board shall have the right to prescribe rules for 
its proceedings, and shall keep a record or journal thereof. No 
resolution shall be passed or adopted, or any action taken, except 
upon the vote of a majority of all the members of the Board. 
Within one week after any meeting of the Board, the proceedings 
thereof shall be published in one of the newspapers of the city, un- 
less the Board shall otherwise direct. 

Sec. 5. The City Clerk shall be, ex-officio, the Clerk of the 
Board of Health, but he shall have no vote therein. He shall keep 
a full record of all the proceedings and actions of the Board, and 


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shall perform all such duties relating to his office as the Board 
may direct, and as are now or may hereafter be required by the 
laws of the state and the Charter and the Ordinances of the city. 
It shall also be his duty to furnish for the use of the physicians and 
householders in the city, the necessary blanks for the reports re- 
quired by sections four thousand four hundred and fifty-two and 
four thousand four hundred and fifty-three of the Compiled Laws 
of the State of Michigan of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. 

Sec. 6. The city inspector and the constables of the city shall 
execute and obey all the lawful orders issued by said Board, rela- 
tive to the promotion of the public health, and for the purpose of 
executing all such orders the city inspector shall have all the 
powers and authority of a constable or a policeman within the City 
of Holland; and all other officers of the corporation shall obey and 
comply with all the lawful rules, resolutions and health regulations 
issued by the Board relating to the several subjects of their respec- 
tive departments. 

Sec. 7. The Board of Health shall have power, and it is her2- 
by made its duty, to make and direct to be made, diligent inquiry 
with respect to all nuisances and dangerous or infectious diseases 
of every description in said city, which are or may be dangerous 
or injurious to the public, and whenever in their judgment it 
shall be necessary for the public health, they may at once take 
possession of any building, factory, hotel, dwelling house, out- 
house, premises or grounds in or upon which in their judgment 
there exists any dangerous or infectious diseases prejudicial to the 
public health, and at once, and by force if necessary, close up such 
houses, buildings, hotels and premises, and exclade all occupants 
therefrom until all danger to the public is past and the contents 
of such building or premises are thoroughly purified. Any person 
who shall resist the action of the Board, or any of its officers or 
agents, under this section shall be liable to the penalty provided 
for in section twelve of this ordinance. 

Sec. 8. The Board of Health shall also have power, and it 
shall be its duty, to take such measures as they shall deem necea3s- 
ary and effectual to secure the inhabitants of the city from conta- 
gious, malignant, and infectious diseases, and to preserve and pro- 
mote the public health; and they shall have and exercise all the 
powers and authority conferred upon Boards of Health by chapter 
one hundred eight of the Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan 
of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and the acts amendatory 
thereof, so far as the same shall be applicable, and may be exer- 
cised in and for said city, consistent with the provisions of the 
City Charter. 

Sec. 9. The Board shall make and prescribe the necessary 
sanitary rules and regulations for the government of the city and 
the promotion of the public Sau Such rules shall be numbered 


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serially and entitled ‘“‘health regulations.’ The style of said health 
regulations shall be: “It is hereby ordered by the Board of Health 
of the City of Holland.’”’ The health regulations shall be signed 
by the president or person acting as president of the Board, and at- 
tested by the clerk, after which they shall be recorded in a hook 
kept for that purpose and filed. Within one week after the passage 
of any health regulation the same shall be published in one of the 
newspapers published in the city. Each health regulation shall 
take effect twenty days from the day of its passage. 

Sec. 10. If for sufficient cause the Boari shall deem it néces- 
sary to order the immediate removal or abating of anything con- 
sidered by the Board to be a nuisance or to be dangerous to the 
lives or health of the inhabitants of the city, or of any certain local- 
ity therein, the Board shall make such order by passing or adopting 
a resolution to that effect, setting forth the facts and circumstances 
in the case and ordering and requiring within a reasonable time, in 
such resolution to be designated, the removal, abating, discontinu- 
ing or prohibition thereof. Upon the passage of such resolution, 
the clerk shall forthwith make and deliver to the city inspector or 
to any constable of the city for service, a written or printed notice, 
or a partly written and partly printed notice. Such officer shall 
at once serve said notice either personally on the owner, agent 
or occupant, or by posting the same upon a conspicuous place on 
the premises. Such notice shall specify with reasonable certainty 
what is required to be done, and shall require such owner agent, 
or occupant to comply with the order of the Board within the time 
specified therein, which shall not be less than twenty-four hours 
from the time of service or posting thereof, or that the same will 
be done under the supervision of the Board, its officers or agent, 
and the expenses thereof charged to the owner or assessed upon 
the premises; and in case the requirements of such notice shall 
not be complied with within the time and in the manner therein 
set forth and specified, and according to the spirit and intent 
thereof, it shall be the duty of the city inspector or any constable 
to proceed immediately, together with as many persons as may be 
deemed necessary to employ, and cause such work to be done; for 
that purpose it shall be lawful for the said city inspector, constable 
or Board of Health, or any member thereof, or any other person 
by and under the direction of said city inspector, constable, or 
Board of Health, to enter into and upon any premises, or into any 
basin, cellar, house, or other building, which it shall be necessary 
to enter into or upon, in order to perform the work contemplated 
by said resolution and notice, and there to do and perform every 
act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in the perform- 
ance of said work; and every person who shall willfully hinder, 
delay, oppose, or obstruct said city inspector, constable, or any 
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Health in the discharge of the aforesaid duty, shall be liable to 
the penalty fixed in section twelve of this ordinance. 

Sec. 11. All expenses incurred by the Board of Health in the 
legal discharge of their duties, as prescribed by law and this or- 
dinance, shall be reported to the Common Council. Such report 
shall embrace an itemized account of all services performed, and 
by whom, and of all materials furnished; and also shall describe 
the lot or premises where services were performed and materials 
were furnished, together with the names of the owner, agent, and 
occupant thereof, if known. Such report, when approved by the 
Board of Health, and signed by the president and clerk thereof, 
shall be entered in full upon its minutes. 

Sec. 12. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
cr requirements of this ordinance upon conviction thereof, shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and cost of 
prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail or county jail of 
the County of Ottawa for a period not exceeding ninety days; and 
in case a fine and cost only shall be imposed, the offender may be 
imprisoned in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County until 
the payment of such fine and cost for a term not exceeding ninety 
days. 

Sec. 13. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Establishing 
a Board of Health and Defining Its Powers,’’ passed December 21, 
1886, and approved December 22, 1886, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 14. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 253 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to City Scavengers 
Passed July 22, 1907. Approved July 23, 1907 


Sec. Sec. 

1. To obtain license. 5. Charges. 

2. Application. 6. Penalty. 

8. Bond. 7. When to take effect. 
4. Duties. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall engage in the business of a scavenger 
or collect and dispose of garbage, excrement and refuse within the 
City of Holland, without first having obtained a license therefor, 
as hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 2. Every person desiring to obtain a license to engage 
in or carry on the business of a scavenger shall annually on or be- 


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fore the first Monday of June of each year, make .application 
therefore to the Board of Health of the City of Holland, said 
application shall’ set forth the name and residence of the person 
applying for said license, the territory within said city where 
the applicant desires to exercise his privilege, the portion of the 
business he desires to engage in, if less than all that is contemplat- 
ed by this ordinance, and: the price at which he is willing to accept 
such license, to be stated in the usual units, and shall be signed 
by the applicant. The price shall be. stated. for garbage, refuse, and 
excrement, separately, and also a bid to cover for all, if the appli- 
cant so desires. Board of Health may grant one or more licenses, 
in its discretion, as will best serve the conditions of the city. 

(As amended by Ordinance No. 306. Approved, July 3, 1914.) 

Sec. 3. After the granting of such application by the Board 
of Health, and before a license shall be issued, the. applicant 
shall execute a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, 
conditioned for the faithful observance of all rules, regulations 
and requirements of the Board of Health of the City of Holland 
and of all rules,. regulations and ordinances of the City of Holland 
relating to such business and occupation, which bond shall be re- 
newed annually. 

“Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the person so licensed to 
collect all garbage, excrement and refuse within the territory or 
route where licensed so to do,‘and to dispose of the same at such 
times, and in such place and in such manner as may be required 
by the Board of Health of the City of Holland. 


Sec. 5. It shall not be lawful for any person so licensed ,to 
charge any person for such collection and disposal of garbage, 
excrement and refuse, any larger sum than that set forth in his 
application to the Board of Health. 

(As amended by Ordinance No. 306. Approved July 3, 1914.) 


Sec. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
not exceeding one hundred‘dollars and costs of prosecution, or by 
imprisonment in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County, for 
a period not exceeding ninety days; and in case sm fine and costs 
only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced to imprison- 
ment in the city jail ot County jail of Ottawa County until the 
payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding ninety 
days. 

Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 254 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Nuisances. 
Passed August 12, 1907. Approved August 12, 1907. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Nuisances prohibited. 8.. Sweepings, etc. 

2. Materials not to be placed 9. Conveyances for garbage, 
in streets, etc. etc. 

8. Certain trades. 10. Black River and Black 

4. Not to keep certain sub- Lake. 
stances, etc. 11. Who may abate. 

5. Stables. 12. Penalty. 

6. Hides. 13. Repealing Clause. 

7. Stables. 14. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. \No person shall permit or suffer on his premises, or 
on any premises which he may occupy, located within the city, any 
nuisance, nor shall exercise any calling or trade within the city 
which is unwholesome or offensive, or by which a nuisance shall 
be created. 

Sec. 2. No person shall place, deposit, or leave, or cause to 
be placed, deposited or left, in any street, highway, lane, alley, 
space or square, dock, wharf or slip, any animal or vegetable sub- 
stance, dead animals, fish, shells, shavings, dirt, rubbish, excrement, 
filth, slops, unclean or nauseous water or liquor, hay, straw, 
cinders, soot, offal, garbage, swill, or other like article or substance 
whatever. 

Sec. 3. No distiller, soap boiler, tallow chandler, dyer, mach- 
inist, or other person, shall himself, or by another discharge out 
or from any still house, soap or candle factory, dye house, work 
shop, factory, machine shop, dwelling house, or other building, any 
foul or nauseous liquid, water or other substance, into or upon 
any highway, street, lane, alley, public space or square or into any 
adjacent lot or ground. 


Sec. 4. No person shall have, keep, place or prepare in or 
about any building, lot, or premises in the city, any dead carcass, 
putrid, offensive or unsound meat, fish, hides, skins, bones, horns, 
foap, grease, lard, ttallow, offal, garbage or other animal or 
vegetable matter or substance, which may cause any unwholesome, 
noisome or offensive smell. 

Sec. 5. The keeper of any stable in the city shall keep the 
stable and yard clean, and shall store all manure in enclosed bins, 
and shall remove and not permit such manure to accumulate in 
the same more than three consecutive weeks at any one time. 


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Sec. 6. No person shall allow any green or salted hides to 
remain on any street or sidewalk in the city; nor shall any person 
allow any green or salted hides to remain in any other open places 
within the city longer than one ‘hour, unless such hides shall bs 
in transit at a railroad depot or steamboat dock. 

Sec. 7. No person shall collect or confine swine in pens or 
otherwise in the city; nor shall any person or persons stable, yard 
or confine any cow or other cattle within fitfy feet of any dwelling 
house, occupied dwelling, well or spring in said city; nor shall 
any stable, shed or other building or place for that purpose be 
kept or maintained within the distance aforesaid, except at such 
places within said city as may be designated or approved by the 
board of health thereof, and subject to such regulations, orders 
and directions in relation thereto as said board of health may from 
time to time make or give relating to their location, cleansing and 
purification: nor shall any person keep or use any privy within fifty 
feet of any well or svring or adjoining to and abutting on the lot 
on which any person resides, or so near or in such position that 
the contents of said privy are discharged upon any such lot or 
premises. 

Sec. 8. It shall not be lawful for any person to sweep, 
deposit, or cause to be swept or deposited upon any street or side- 
walk within the city, any sweepings, ashes, dirt, paper or filthy 
substance from any building; nor shall any person unload, cause 
or permit to be unloaded, through, over or upon the sidewalk or 
street upon which his premises abut, any material or fuel in any 
manner which may cause the dust and dirt to be carried through 
the air or be deposited upon such sidewalk or street; nor shall 
any person place or permit to be placed or remain any package, 
container or stand in such a manner that the contents thereof may 
drain or fall upon or across any sidewalk or street in the city. 

Sec. 9. No person shall use any cart, wagon or other vehicle 
for the purpose of conveying swill, offal, garbage, refuse, rubbish 
or excrement unless the same shall be perfectly tight and covered 
so as to prevent the contents thereof from leaking or spilling, nor 
unless approved by the board of health of the city, and such cart, 
wagon, or other vehicle shall at all times be subject to the inspec- 
tion and regulation of the board of health, and wmen not in use 
shall not be allowed to stand in any highway, street, lane, alley, 
public space or square; nor in any other place in the city, except 
by permission of the board of health. 

Sec. 10. No person shall place, deposit or throw in the 
waters of Black River or Black Lake, within the city limits, any 
vegetables, perishable substances, hides, offal, garbage, or any un- 
wholesome or decayed matter, or anything whatever deleterious to 
the public health. 

Sec. 11, The Mayor, Chief of Police, any Police officer, any 


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Alderman or Constable, with any person or persons in aid of him, 
may at any time enter upon any boat or vessel, or into any build- 
ing, basement, or other place in the city, and abate or remove any 
nuisance designated in this ordinance, in such manner as to him 
or them may seem best; and any person hindering or obstructing 
such officer or persons in aid of him in abating or removing such 
nuisance, shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter prescribed. 

Sec. 12. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, 
or by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of the County 
of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding ninety days; and in case a 
fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced 
to be imprisoned in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa County, 
until the payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding 
ninety days. 

Sec. 13. An Ordinance entitled ‘“‘An Ordinance Relative to 
Nuisances,’’ passed December 22, 1896, and approved December 
23, 1896, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 14. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 256 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relating To Auctioneers. 
Passed November 11, 1907. Approved November 12, 1907. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. License. 7. To keep record. 
2. Application. 8. No bell or crier. 
3. Bond and fee. 9. May be revoked. 
4. Amount of fee. 10. Penalty. 
5. License. 11. Repealing clause, 
5. License not transferable. 12. When to take effect. 
6. No goods from minors, 
etc. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall engage in, or carry on, the business of 
auctioneer, or sell or cry off at auction, any real estate property, 
chattels, goods, wares or merchandise of any description, or publicly 
cry down the price of same, from any place of business, wagon, 
stand, public street, or any other place within the limits of the City 
of Holland, without first obtaining a license therefor as herein- 
after provided: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained 
shall apply to sales made under legal process, 


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Sec. 2. Every person desiring to engage in, or carry on, 
the business of auctioneer, or to sell, or cry off at auction any real 
estate, property, chattels, goods, wares or merchandise of any des- 
cription or to publicly cry down the same within the limits of the city 
shall before entering upon such business or so doing, make applica- 
tion therefor to the Common Council, which application shall 
set forth the name and residence of the person applying 
for such license, the length of time for which it is to be issued, the 
place or places in said city where said license is to be used; and 
the said application shall be signed by the applicant. 


Sec. 3. After the granting of such application by the Com- 
mon Council, and before a license shall be issued the applicant 
shall execute a bond to the City of Holland, in the penal sum of 
one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved 
by the Common Council, conditioned that he shall in all respects 
conform to the ordinances of said city relating to auctions and 
auctioneers, and pay all penalties which may be recovered against 
him for violation of any ordinance of said city relating to auctions 
and auctioneers. Such bond must be renewed upon the renewal 
of any license granted under the terms of this ordinance. Such ap- 
plicant shall, also, before such license is issued to him, pay into the 
city treasury, the sum in full for said license as hereinafter fixed 
and provided, and shall file the city treasurer’s receipt therefor 
with the City Clerk. Upon the filing of such application, and 
after the approval by the Common Council of the bond herein 
provided for, and the presentation of such receipt, it shall be the 
duty of the City Clerk to issue the necessary license as hereinafter 
directed, under seal of the city. No license shall be granted under 
the provisions of this ordinance for any time beyond the first Mon- 
day of June next thereafter. Each license shall be signed by the 
Mayor, or acting Mayor, and countersigned by the City Clerk, and 
shall set forth the material facts as stated in the application. 


Sec. 4. The sum of money to be paid for a license required 
by this ordinance, shall be as follows: For one year, the sum of 
two hundred dollars; for six months, one hundred fifty dollars; for 
three months, one hundred twenty dollars; for one month, sixty 
dollars; for one week, thirty dollars; and for one day or less, ten 
dollars: Provided, that the Common Council, when it is deemed 
expedient, may reduce the sum to be paid for any license, require- 
ed by this ordinance, issued for one day or less, and for fractions 
of any of the above stated license periods. 


Sec. 5. Each any every license issued under the provisions 
of this ordinance, shall entitle only the person named therein to 
carry on such business, in person and not by proxy, nor shall any 
license be transferable. 


Sec. 6. No person so licensed shall receive for sale by auc- 


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tion, any property, chattels, goods, wares, or commodities from 
any minor or apprentice, nor shall he make use of any deception 
or fraud in such gales. 


Sec. 7. Every person so licensed shall keep a fair and itemized 
record of all goods, chattels and property sold by him, of the per- 
son or persons from whom they may be received, and the name 
of the purchaser. Such record shall be open and accessible at all 
times to the inspection of the Mayor, any Alderman, the Chief of 
Police or any Policeman, and the City Attorney. 


Sec. 8. No bellman, or crier, nor any drum, fife, or other in- 
strument of music, nor any show, signal, or means of attracting 
the attention of passengers, other than a sign or flag, shall be em- 
ployed, suffered or permitted to be used, at or near any place of 
auction sale, auction room, the residence of any auctioneer, or at 
or near any auction whatsoever. 


Sec. 9. Every license provided for by the terms of this or- 
dinance shall be granted upon the condition and shall expressly 
provide that after personal service of written notice to the licensee 
of the intention of the Common Council, such license may, for 
any non-compliance with the terms and conditions upon which it 
is granted, or on acocunt of any violation of any of the provisions 
of this or of any ordinance of the City of Holland relating to auc- 
tions or auctioneers, in the discretion of the Common Council, be 
by them revoked, and that any person holding sucn license shall, 
in addition to any and all other penalties imposed, thereupon for- 
feit all payments made for such license. 


Sec. 10. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution 
or by imprisonment in the City jail, or County jail of the county 
of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding ninety days; and in case a 
fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced 
to imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa county, 
until payment of such fine and costs, for a term not exceeding 
ninety days. 

Sec. 11. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Relating to 
Auctioneers,’’ passed May 25, 1886, and approved May 26, 1886, 
is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 257 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative To Shows 
Passed January 13, 1908. Approved January 14, 1908. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. To obtain license. 5. What not included. 
2. Application. 6. Penalty. 

3. License. | 7. Repealing Clause 

4. Fee for. 8. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person or persons, firm or corporation shall ex- 
hibit in the City of Holland any natural or artificial curiosity, 
caravan, circus, menagerie, theatrical exhibition, show, nor any ex- 
hibition of whatever name or nature for which money or other re- 
ward is in any manner demanded or received, without first having 
obtained a license therefor, as hereinafter provided; and no per- 
son, firm or corporation shall knowingly allow or permit any house, 
out-building, yard or other place in the city owned or possessed py 
him, to be used for the accommodation of any such exhibition or 
performance, unless a license therefor, obtained as herein provid- 
ed, shall have first been shown to such owner or possessor. 


Sec. 2. Every person, firm or corporation, desiring to exhibit 
in the City of Holland, any natural or artificial cumosity, caravan, 
circus, menagerie, theatrical exhibition, show or any other exhibi- 
tion, for which money or other reward is in any manner demanded 
or received, shall before so doing, make application in writing 
therefor to the Mayor, which application shall state the object and 
length of time for which, and the place where said license is desired 
to be used, and in case of a firm, such application shall set forth the 
names of all the parties constituting such firm. Such application 
shall be accompanied with a bond in the penal sum of five hundred 
dollars with.two or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the 
Mayor, conditioned for the faithful observance of all rules, regula- 
tions and ordinances imposed by said city relating to such ex- 
hibition and business, and that the proprietors of any show, cara- 
van, circus, menagerie or exhibition shall indemnify the City of 
Holland from any damage done by any such exhibition, or by any 
of the officers, agents or employees thereof, to the streets or public 
property of the City of Holland, and that in event of any such 
damage on account thereof, the makers of such bond shall be liable 
to the said City thereon to the full extent of such damage. 

Sec. 3. After the granting of such application and the ap- 
proval of such bond, the applicant shall also, before receiving a 
license put into the city treasury the sum of money nereinafter 


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provided, and shall take a receipt therefor. Upon the filing of such 
application and bond, and _ the presentation of such receipt, 
the city clerk shall issue the necssary license as hereinbefore pro- 
vided under the seal of the city. Each license shall be signed by 
the Mayor, or acting Mayor, and countersigned by the city clerk. 
The license herein provided for shall include a permit for one par- 
ade for each day for which such license is issued; provided, how- 
ever, if any such exhibition shall be located outside the city limits, 
the same application and bond are required to be procured in the 
Same manner, and the same shall be paid for a permit to parade 
through the streets of the City of Holland as is provided for in 
case such exhibition is given within the city. 

Sec. 4. The sum of money to be paid for a license wnder the 
provisions of this ordinance shall be as follows: All circuses, 
menageries or caravans, shall pay for each day or less the sum of 
fifty dollars; for a side show, so called or for any exhibition or 
performance, attending or travelling with, or following any circus, 
menageries or caravans, where ¢ separate price of admission is re- 
quired, each license for one day or less shall be ten dollars; for 
theatrical or operatic exhibitions or entertainments each license shall 
be, for one day three dollars, for two days five dollars, and for 
each additional day one dollar; for the exhibition of any animal 
or animals, paintings, pictures, illustrations, natural or artificial 
curiosities and attractions, each license shall be for one day or less, 
one dollar; for any other show or exhibition of whatever name or 
nature for which money or other reward is in any manner de- 
manded or received, each license shall be, for one day or less, one 
collar; Provided however, that the Comomn Council may, by 
resolution, fix an annual license to be paid by the owners or oc- 
cupants of any building in which theatrical, operatic or other en- 
tertainments and attractions for which an admission is charged, 
are held, and after the payment of such annual license by said 
ewners or occupants, any theatrical, operatic or other entertain- 
ment or attraction may be held in said ‘building without other 
license. Provided further, that the Common Council, when it is 
deemed expedient, may reduce the sum to be paid for any license 
required by this ordinance, issued for one day or less. (As amend- 
ed by Ordinance No. 234. Approved April 5, 1906.) 

Sec. 5. This ordinance shall not apply to any concert or 
musical entertainment given by a home company, so called, or by 
the pupils of any private or public school in said city, or any con- 
cert or entertainment given for the benefit of any church or bene- 
volent object in this city, or lecture on historical, literary, or 
scientific subjects. 

Sec. 6. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the 
provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs of 


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prosecution, or by imprisonment in the City jail or County jail of 
the County of Ottawa for a period not exceeding ninety days; and 
in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be 
sentenced to be imprisoned in the City jail or County jail of Ottawa 
County until the payment of such fine and costs for a term not ex- 
ceeding ninety days. 

Sec. 7. An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Relative to 
Shows’”’ passed May 25, 1886, and aproved May 26, 1886, as amend- 
ed by An Ordinance, To amend sections four and five thereof, pass- 
ed April 4, 1906 and approved April 5, 1906 and all ordinances and 
parts thereof in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 8. 'This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 258 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Disorderly Persons, and Persons Conducting Them- 
selves in a Disorderly Manner. 


Passed February 10, 1908. Approved February 11, 1908. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Who included. 3. Repealing Clause. 
2. Penalty. 4. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. Any person who shall have actually abandoned his 
wife, child or children or either, or who threatens to run away and 
leave his family or any cf them a burden on the public, or who, 
being or sufficient ability, refuses or neglects to support his wife, 
child or children; all persons pretending to tell fortunes, in the 
city, or with whom lost or stolen goods are found; all vagrants, 
truants, mendicants, street beggars, drunkards, tipplers, gamesters, 
common prostitutes; all keepers or inmates of disorderly houses 
and places, houses of ill-fame, assignation houses, houses for the 
resort of prostitutes or gambling houses in the city; all persons 
who knowlingly sell, give or furnish intoxicating liquors to drunk- 
ards, tipplers or other disorderly persons in the city; all persons 
found drunk in any of the streets, parks or public places in the 
city; any person who shall make any open or indecent exposure of 
his or her person or of the person of another in the city; all per- 
sons who show, sell or offer for sale, distribute or exhibit any inde- 
cent, immoral or obsgecene picture, drawing, engraving, pianting, 
book, pamphlet, or writen or printed matter, or make any indecent 
or obscene exhibition or show of any kind whatever in the city: 
all women engaged in ‘‘street walking” in the city, or endeavoring 
to induce men to follow for the purpose of prostitution; all persons 


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who stand, loiter or stroll about in any place in the city, awaiting 
or seeking an opportunity to obtain money or other valuable things 
from others by trick or fraud, or to aid or assist therein; all per- 
sons who shall engage in any fraudeulent scheme, device or trick to 
obtain money or other valuable thing, in the city, or who aid or 
abet or in any manner are concerned therein; all persons who keep, 
or go about with, in any street or in any public place in the city. 
any gaming table, wheel of fortune, box, machine, instrument, or 
device for the purpose of gain; all persons who play in the streets 
or in any public place in the city with cards, dice, or any instru- 
ment or device for gaming; all persons soliciting in the city for 
any gambling room or house; all persons found loitering about 
any hotel, block, common barroom, dram shop, gambling house, 
disorderly house and place, house of ill-fame, assignation house in 
the city or wandering about the streets or public places of the city, 
in idleness, either day or night, without lawful means of support, 
or without being able to give satisfactory account of himself or 
herself; and all persons who shall use any indecent, insulting or 
immoral language in any street or public place in the city, or shal! 
be guilty of any indecent or immoral conduct or behaviour in any 
place in the City of Holland, shall be deemed disorderly persons, 
and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in sec- 
tion 2 of this ordinance. 


Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine not exceeding fifty dollars and costs of prosecution or by im- 
prisonment in the city jail or county jail of the county of Ottawa 
for a period not exceeding 90 days; and in case a fine and costs only 
shall be imposed, the offender may be sentenced to imprisonment 
in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa county, until payment of 
such fine and costs for a term not exceeding 90 days. 


Sec.. 3. An ordinance entitled, ‘“‘An ordinance to preserve 
public peace, to promote good order, and to punish persons con- 
ducting themselves in a disorderly manner,’’ passed December 22, 
1896, and approved December 23, 1896; and ‘‘An ordinance rela- 
tive to disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame, assignation houses, 
and gambling houses,’”’ passed December 7, 1886 and approved 
December 8, 1886, as amended by ‘“‘An ordinance to amend sec- 
tions four and five’’ of said ordinance, which amendment was 
passed January 2, 1907, and approved January 3, 1907, and ‘‘An 
ordinance relative to the indecent exposure of the person, the 
show, sale or exhibition for sale of any indecent or obscene pict- 
ures, drawings, engravings, paintings, books or pamphlets, and all 
indecent or obscene exhibitions or shows of any kind,” passed 
December 22, 1896, and approved December 23, 1896, and all 


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ordinances and parts thereof in conflict with this ordinance, are 
hereby repealed. 

Sec. 4. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 263 
AN ORDINANCE 


To Preserve Public Peace and Promote Good Order. 
Passed July 7, 1909. Approved July 7, 1909. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. What unlawful. | 5. Drinking intoxicating liqu- 
2. Loitering, etc. ors in streets, etc. 

3. Disturbing meetings, etc. 6. Penalty. 

4. Firing guns, etc. %. When to take effect, 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to make or assist 
‘in making any improper noise, disturbance or diversion, or any 
riot or rout by which the peace and good order of the neighbor- 
hood are disturbed. 

Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any persons to collect and 
stand in crowds, for any person or persons to remain loitering on 
the sidewalks or at the corner of the street or on the crosswalks 
or in front of any store, place of business, public hall, place of 
worship or any other public place in the city of Holland 

Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person by talking, laugh- 
ing or otherwise, to interrupt or distrub the service in any place 
of worship, or to interrupt or disturb any public meeting assembled 
at any time for any lawful purpose. 

Sec. 4. No person shall fire or shoot off any air gun, spring 
gun, crossbow, slung shot, rifle, pistol, or other dangerous weapon 
or instrument in the streets, alleys, or public places of the city. 

Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to drink any in- 
toxicating liquors in any of the streets, alleys, or public places of 
the city. 

Sec. 6. Any person, who shall violate any of tne provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine of not exceeding twenty-five ($25) dollars and the costs of 
prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail or County jail of 
the county of Ottawa, for a period not exceeding thirty days; and 
in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender may be 
sentenced to be imprisoned in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa 
county, until the payment of such fine and costs for a term not 
exceeding thirty days. 

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Sec. 7 This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 265 
AN ORDINANCE 


To Regulate the Presence of Children under Sixteen Years of 
Age upon the Streets or Public Places of the City of Hol- 
land, after Certain Hours of the Night, and Providing 
for a Signal of Warning Indicating Curfew Hours. 


Passed December 15, 1909. Approved December 16, 1909. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Curfew hours. 4. Duties of Justice. 
2. Children not permitted on 5. Signal. 
streets after hours. 6. Penalty. 
3. Duties of Police. 7. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of 
sixteen (16) years to be or remain in or upon any of the streets, 
alleys or public places in the city of Holland, after the hour of nine 
(9) o’clock p. m., from the first day of May to the 30th day of 
September inclusive, of each year, and after the hour of eight 
o’clock p. m. from October Ist until April 30th, inclusive, unless 
such person is accompanied by his parent, guardian or other per- 
son having legal custody and control of such mincr, or unless such 
rainor is in the performance of an errand of duty directed iby his 
parent, guardian or other person having his care or custody, or 
where the employment of such minor makes it necessary for said 
minor to be upon said streets, alleys and public places during the 
night time after said specified hours. 


Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian or 
other person having the legal care and custody of any minor un- 
der the age of sixteen years to allow or pemit any such child, 
ward or other person under such age, while in his legal custody 
to go or to be unaccompanied upon any of the streets, alleys or 
public places in said city, within the time prohibited in section 
cne of this ordinance, unless there exists a reasonable necessity 
therefore. 


Sec. 3. Each member of the police force, and any peace offic- 
ers are hereby authorized to arrest without warrant any person 
within his presence violating any of the provisions of section one 
of this ordinance, and retain such person for a reasonable time 
until complaint can be made and warrant issued and served. Pro- 


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vided, that no child or minor person arrested under the provisions 
of this ordinance shall be placed in confinement until he or she 
has first been taken home to ascertain the wishes of the parent, 
guardian or legal custodian of such child, and the said parents, 
guardian or legal custodian shall refuse to be held responsible for 
the observance of this ordinance by said minor person. 

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Justice of the Peace before 
whom complaint is made against any minor person under this or- 
dinance, upon the arrest of any such child or minor person where 
the parents, guardian or legal custodian of such minor person re- 
fuses to become responsible for such minor for the violation of the 
provisions of this ordinance, to inquire into the facts of such ar- 
rest, the condition and circumstances of such child or minor per- 
son, and if it shall apepar that said child or minor person, for 
want of proper parental care, guardianship or control, the grow- 
ing up in mendicacy or vagrancy, or is incorrigible, to cause pro- 
per proceedings to be had under the general law of the state 
of Michigan, for such case made and provided. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Mayor or Chief of Police 
to arrange for some suitable signal, either by the ringing of a bell 
or the blowing of a whistle to give signal of curfew at least five 
minutes before the curfew hours shall have been reached. 

Sec. 6. Any person or persons, either minors under the age 
of sixteen years or the parents, guardians or legal custodians of 
said minor, who shall directly violate any of the provisions of this 
ordinance, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of not 
less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars, and the costs 
of the prosecution, and in the event of the failure to pay such fine 
and costs, may be sentenced by the court or magistrate before whom 
the conviction may be had, to the City Jail of the City of Holland, 
or County Jail of the county of Ottawa, until such fine and costs 
shall have been paid, but not exceeding the period of thirty days. 

Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 269 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Side Track of the City of Holland. 
Passed September 21, 1910. Approved September 22, 1910 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Track, what not to be used ..6th Street. 
for. 3. Penalty. 
2. Cars not to be left on, on 4. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall place, or cause to be placed, or per- 
mit to be placed, on the side track of the city of Holland, any 
car, or train of cars, except only for the purpose of placing cars to 
be loaded or unloaded, or taken away after loading or unloading, 
for the use and benefit of the city of Holland, or its several 
boards or officers. 

Sec. 2. No car or train of cars shall be loaded or unloaded 
while placed on said track and standing along east Sixth street 
in said city of Holland. 


Sec. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this 
ordinance, shall on conviction, pay a fine of not less than ten 
dollars and not more than fifty dollars, and the costs of prosecu- 
tion, and in default of the payment of said fine and cost of prose- 
cution, shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the City jail of 
the city of Holland, or county jail of the county of Ottawa, for 
a period of not less than five days and not more than thirty days, 
or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the 
Court or Magistrate before whom such conviction is had. Every 
day any car or train of cars is placed or permitted on said track, 
except as herein provided, shall constitute a separate and distinct 
offense. 


Sec. 4. This ordinance’ shall take effect twenty (20) days 
after its passage. 


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No. 270 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Weights and Measures, and the Appointment of a 
Sealer of W:ights and Measures in the City of Holland 
Passed December 7, 1910. Approved December 8, 1910 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Who to be Sealer. 7. Coal, etc. 

2. Duties. 8. Idem. . 

3. Condemned Weights, etc. 9. Not to interfere with 
4. Record. Sealer. 

5. Standard. 10. Penalty. 

6. Refusal to have tested. 11. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1.. The Chief of Police of the City of Holland is here- 
by constituted and appointed as Sealer of Weights and Measures 
in and for the City of Holland; and any Policeman is hereby 
authorized and empowered to perform any of the duties herein 
required to be performed by the Sealer of Weights and Measures. 
Also said duties may be performed by any person especially ap- 
pointed thereto by the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners 
of the City of Holland. 

Sec. 2. The Sealer of Weights and Measures shall try and 
prove all scales, beams, weights and Measures used in the City 
of Holland, for the purpose of buying and selling, and such as he 
shall find to conform to the standards in his office he shall mark 
or stamp with the word ‘‘Approved”’ or with the letter ‘‘H” and 
the year in which such inspection is made; and such as he finds 
do not conform to the standards in his office he shall mark or 
stamp with the word ‘‘condemned.’’ He shall have the power to 
remove or cause to be removed any scales, beams, weights or 
measures which he finds that do not conform’ to the standards 
in his office which are used for buying and selling any goods, 
wares and merchandise, and he may also remove or cause the 
same to be removed for the purposes of inspection. 

Sec. 8. No person, firm or corporation, shall use any scale, 
beam, weight or measure, which has not been duly approved as 
herein provided for, except on a written permit of the Sealer 
of Weights and Measures, pending an inspection. If the said 
Sealer of Weights and Measures shall condemn auy scale, beam, 
weight or measure he shall notify the person, firm or corporation 
in whose possession the same is found and that he has condemned 
such scale, beam, weight or measure, and that it must be repaired 
within ten days, and that it is not to be used until again inspect- 
ed and approved. If the same is not repaired then upon such 


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second inspection the said Sealer of Weights and Measures shall 
remove the same from the place where found. . 


Sec. 4. All scales, beams, weights and measures shall be 
tested as herein provided at least once in each fiscal year. The 
Sealer of Weights and Measures shall keep in a book, provided 
by the City of Holland, a record of all weights, measures, scales 
or beams inspected, the date thereof, the person owning or using 
same, the number and size thereof, and whether approved or 
condemned. Said book shall at all reasonable times be open 
to inspection and examination of the public. 


Sec. 5. The standards herein provided for shall be such as 
conform to the United States Standard of Weights and Measures. 


Sec. 6. No person, firm or corporation shall neglect or re- 
fuse to exhibit any scale, beam, weight or measure, or other in- 
strument used by him in weighing or measuring, to the Sealer 
of Weights and Measures when demanded by him, or his duly 
authorized assistants, for the purpose of having the same tested 
and inspected. 

Sec. 7. No person shall sell or deliver any coal, coke, hay 
or straw (except hay or straw in bundles) unless there be deliver- 
ed to the person in charge of the wagon or conveyance used in 
delivering such coal, coke, hay or straw, a certificate in writing 
showing the weight thereof, the weight of the wagon or con- 
veyance, and the net weight of the coal, coke, hay or straw, there- 
on, the date of weighing and the name of the purchaser. 


Sec. 8. The Sealer of Weights and Measures may at any 
time order any person delivering coal, coke, hay or straw, (ex- 
cept hay or straw in bundles) as in section 7 hereof provided, to 
drive on such scale in the City of Holland as he may designate, 
to determine the correctness of the certificate in said section 7 
provided for, and if the said certificate is false or incorrect, the 
said person issuing the said certificate shall be liable as in this 
ordinance provided for. 


Sec. 9. No person shall in any way interfere with the Seal- 
er of Weights and Measures in the performance of any act here- 
in required to be performed by him. Any interference with any 
assistant or agent, duly authorized, shall be deemed an interfer- 
ence with the Sealer of Weights and Measures. No person shall 
refuse or delay his entrance into any place at any reasonable 
time for the purpose of executing any of the duties required of 
him; no person shall refuse or omit to stop any wagon or Car- 
riage or other conveyance, whereby the execution of this ordin- 
ance or any part thereof, shall be“impeded or obstructed; and 
any person selling, delivering, or attempting to deliver coal, coke, 
hay or straw of less weight than is purported to be sold or 
delivered in accordance with the certificate provided for in sec- 


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tion 7 hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this or- 
dinance. 

Sec. 10. Any person or persons who shall violate any of 
the provisions or requirements of this ordinance, on conviction 
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars 
and not more than fifty dollars, and the costs of such prosecu- 
tion, or may be imprisoned in the City Jail of the City of Hol- 
land, or the County Jail of the County of Ottawa, for a period 
of not less than 5 days nor more than 30 days, or both such fine 
and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court or magistrate 
before whom such conviction is had. 

Sec. 11. This ordinance shall take effect 20 days after 
its passage. 


Now2is 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Purchase of Intoxieating Liquors By Minors. 
Passed September 6, 1911. Approved September 7, 1911. 


Sec... Sec. 

1. Minor not to misrepresent where liquors are sold. 
age. 4, Penalty. 

2. Minor not to purchase. 5. When to take effect. 


3. Minor not’ to enter place 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person under the age of 21 years shall mis- 
represent himself to be 21 years or over for the purpose of ob- 
taining malt, spirituous, vinous or other intoxicuting liquors. 

Sec. 2. No person who is under the age of 21 years shall 
ask for, buy, obtain or drink any intoxicating liquor in any place 
in the City of Holland where intoxicating liquors are sold. 

Sec. 3. Nor shall any such person enter any wholesale 
liquor house or other place where intoxicating liquors are sold, 
except in drug. stores. 

Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine of not more than Fifty Dollars, and the costs of prosecution, 
er by imprisonment in the County Jail of Ottawa County not to 
exceed sixty days, in the discretion of the court or magistrate 
before whom the conviction may be had. 

Sec. 5. This ordinance shall take effect twenty (20) days 
after its passage. 


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No. 276 


AN ORDINANCE 


To Prohibit and Prevent Hanging, Posting, Placing and Putting 
any Bills, Notices, Advertisements, Signs, Placards or Other 
Things on any Tree, Post or other Property in any Street, 
Avenue, Alley, or Other Highway within the City of Holland 
or upon any Property Belonging to the City of Holland. 

Passed November 15, 1911. Approved November 16, 1911 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Posting on poles, etc, pro- 2. Penalty. 
hibited. 3. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 

Sec. 1. No person shall hang, post, place or put any Dill, 
notice, advertisement, sign, placard or other thing upon or against 
any tree, fountain, statuary, monument, electric light post, tele- 
graph or telephone post, or any other post used for the support of 
electric wires, in any street, avenue, alley or other public place 
within the City of Holland, nor upon or against any building 
structure or ‘property belonging to the City of Holland. 

Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to 
the posting of notices of registration, election or any other legal 
notices required to be posted by the charter or any ordinance 
of the City of Holland or by any law of the State of Michigan; 
provided however, that such legal notices shall be affixed by past- 
ing the same and that no tacks, nails or any other metal fasten- 
ers shall be used in affixing same. 

Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by 
a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars and costs of prosecu- 
tion or by imprisonment in the City jail or County jail of Ottawa 
county for a period of not exceeding ninety days; and in case, a 
fine and costs shall be imposed such offender in default of payment 
of said fine and costs may be sentenced to imprisonment in the 
City Jail or the County Jail of Ottawa County until said fine and 
costs shall be paid, not however exceeding ninety days. 

Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 279 


AN ORDINANCE 


ToRegulate the Care, Sale and Distribution of Milk Products 
within the City of Holland; and to License Dealers in and 
Vendors thereof; and to Provide Penalties for 
the Violation thereof 


Passed February 21, 1912. 


Approved February 21, 1912. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Sales only by persons 13. No bottling on streets, 
licensed. 14. Skimmed milk. 
2. ‘*‘Person,’? what included. 15. Milk room. 
3. Application. 16. Not from building where 
4. Application, what to state. contagious disease. 
5. License fee. 17. Condemnation. 
6. License not transferable. 18. Tuberculin test. 
7. Notice of change of source 19. Utensils. 
of supply. 20. Hotels, restaurants, etc. 
8. Adulterated, or Preserved 21. Stables. 
milk. 22. Each day a separate cf- 
9. What not to contain. fense. 
10. Inspection. 23. Penalty. 
11. Displaying of license num- 24. Copy of Ordinance to each 
ber. licensee. 
12. Sales only in bottles. 25. Repealing Clause. 


26. When to take effect, 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. That no person, persons, partnership, or corporation 
shall engage in the sale, delivery or distribution of milk, cream 
buttermilk, skimmed milk or sour milk in the city of Holland, 
without first having obtained a license so to do from the City 
Clerk of said city; and no person shall bring or send milk, cream, 
buttermilk, or sour milk for sale in said city except through a 
licensed dealer as hereinafter provided. 


Sec. 2. The word ‘‘person” shall, for the purpose of this 
ordinance, hereinafter be construed to include individual, co-part- 
nership, firm and corporation. 


Sec. 3. Every person desiring to engage in the sale, delivery 
or distribution of milk, cream, buttermilk, skimmed milk or sour- 
milk in the city of Holland, before doing so, shall make applica- 
tion to the City Clerk of the said city of Holland for a license for 
that purpose, which application shall be in writing, upon the form 
prescribed by the Board of Health of said city. and shall be ap- 


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proved by the Health Officer or the Milk and Food Inspector of 
said city. 

Sec. 4. Said application shall state fully: 

(a) The full name and place of residence of said applicant. 
The exact location of the place or places from which said applicant 
obtains milk and, if said applicant obtains milk from other per- 
sons the name of the person or persons from whom said applicant 
obtains milk. 

(b) The number of cows in each herd supplying said milk 
or any portion thereof. 

(c) The manner in which said applicant intends to dispose 
of said milk and the location of the place where he proposes to 
conduct said business if same shall be fixed. 

Sec. 5. The fee charged for the license herein provided for 
Shall be: for selling milk or cream from wagon, $5.00 for each 
wagon; from a dairy, restaurant, creamery or milk company, $5.00; 
for selling from the house, or when delivered by hand at the rate 
of $1.00 for each cow owned or kept within the city supplying 
said milk or milk products, but not to exceed $5.00 and all 
moneys so received shall be turned into the Public Health fund of 
the city of Holland, to be used by the Board of Health in carry- 
ing out the provisions of this ordinance. 

Sec. 6. The license herein provided for, if issued shall not 
be transferable and shall not extend beyond the first Monday 
in June next after the issue of the same. Provided 
further, that said license may be revoked or suspended 
at any time upon hearing by the Mayor of said _ city 
after notice by the Board of Health, when any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, or any section or sections of the Dairy and Food 
Laws of the State of Michigan, gcverning the sale or distribution 
of milk shall have been violated by the holder of said license. 

Sec. 7. Every person engaged in the sale, delivery or dis- 
tribution of milk in said city, shall notify, in writing, the Board 
of Health of said city, immediately upon changing the source of 
supply of said miJt. Said notice shall state the exact location 
cf the new place from which said milk is procured, the number 
of cows producing the same, the quantity received and the name 
of the person or persons supplying the same. 

Sec. 8. No person shall sell or deliver, or have in his pos- 
session for sale in the city of Holland, any milk or cream which 
is adulterated, or to which water has been added, or which con- 
tains any preservative, foreign or unhealthful ingredient, constitu- 
ent or substance, or cream which does not contain 18 per cent but- 
ter fat, or milk or cream which has been kept at a temperature 
above 60 degrees Fahrenheit, or which has been stored or trans- 
ported in an unclean manner, or which is produced by cows which 
are diseased or which are kept or stabled under  unhealthful, 


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filthy or unsanitary conditions, or which have access to any yard 
or premises which contain undue accumulation of manure, barn- 
yard sewerage or mud; nor shall any milk be sold or delivered in 
said city which is procured from any farm or dairy where any 
contagious, infectious or communicable disease may exist. 
Sec. 9. No person shall sell, hold or offer for sale in the city 

of Holland any milk containing: 

(a) More than eighty-seven and 50-100ths per cent of watery 
fluid; or 

(b) Less than twelve and 50-100ths per cent of milk solids; 
or 

(c) Less than three per cent butter fat; or 

(d) At sixty degrees Fahrenheit, the specific gravity of which 
is not between 1.029 and 1.033; or 

(e) Containing any pathogenic bacteria; or 

(f) Containing more than 200,000 bacteria per cubic centi- 
meter; or 


(g) Produced by a herd which contains any diseased cattle; or. 


(h) Produced by any cow or cows within twenty days before 
or seven days after parturition (calving); 

(i) Produced by any cow cr cows fed of garbage, refuse, swill, 
moist distillery waste, or other improper food or which do not 
receive a proper and sufficient supply of pure drinking water and 
wholesome food; 

Provided, that sub-divisions a, b, c and d, of this section, do 
not apply to milk sold under the name of “Skimmed Milk” as 
hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 10. For the purpose of inspection, the Health Officer, 
Milk Inspector and the Assistants of either of them or any mem- 
ber of the Board of Health, are authorized to enter any building, 
room or premises, either within or without the corporate limits 
of the city of Holland, where milk, cream or milk products are 
produced for sale, sold or held for sale within the city of Holland. 
The aforesaid Health Officer, Milk Inspector, Assistant or any 
Member of the Board of Health, are empowered to open any can, 
vessel or package, whether in transit or otherwise, containing milk 
or cream for sale or consumption in the city of Holfand, and take 
therefrom a suitable sample for examination or analysis; provided, 
that they shall pay therefor the current market price. HExamina- 
tion or analysis shall be made with such instruments or appliances 
as are in gereral use for that purpose at the time of inspection. 

Sec. 11. Every person using a wagon or other vehicle for the 
sale or distribution of milk, cream, buttermilk skim milk or sour 
milk within the city of Holland shall keep the name of the owner 
thereof and the license number in plain, legible letters and figures 
not less than two inches in height upon the side of said wagon or 
vehicle. The aforesaid wagon or vehicle shall be covered by can- 


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vas or other material to adequately protect from sun and dust. 
All wagons, vehicles, and utensils used for delivery, distribution, 
handling or storing of milk shall at all times be kept in a cleanly 
condition and free from any substance liable to contaminate milk 
or milk products. Rusty or broken cans shall not be used in the 
handling, storing or delivery of milk. 

Sec. 12. No person shall give, furnish, sell, or offer for sale 
any milk or cream in quantities less than one gallon, except in 
sterilized, suitably capped bottles or single service packages ap- 
proved by the Board of Health, except where milk is sold at the 
milkhouse or dairy when the same may be dipped. Provided, that 
dipped milk shall not be carried on the street in open vessels. Pro- 
vided further, that skimmed milk, buttermilk or whay in any quan- 
tity may be delivered in closely covered containers. 

Sec. 13. No person shall transfer any milk or cream intend- 
ed for sale, from one can, bottle or receptacle, into an- 
other can, bottle or receptable, on any _ street, alley or 
thoroughfare, or upon delivery wagon, or other vehicle, or in 
any exposed place in the city of Holland except in a creamery milk 
depot or enclosed premises of the customer or dealer in milk. 

Sec. 14. No person shall bring into the city of Holland for 
sale, offer or hold for sale, milk from which the cream has been 
removed, either in whole or in part, unless sold as “Skimmed Milk”’ 
from can, vessel or container on the side of which there shall be 
prominently displayed in plain, 1egible letters not less than one 
inch in height, the words, “Skimmed Milk.” Skimmed milk shall 
contain not less than nire and 50—100ths milk solids. 

Sec. 15. All dealers in milk shall have a room separate anc 
apart from horse or cow stable or other place which is liable to 
contaminate milk. Said milk room or dairy shall he properly light- 
ed and ventilated and shall be used exclusively for handling and 
storing milk and milk products. The construction of said milk- 
room or dairy shall be such that same may be kept clean and satri- 
itary at all times. All vats and utensils used in the handling or 
storing of milk shall be made of non-absorbent material. Windows 
of said milk-room or dairy shall be screened and doors shall be 
fitted with self-closing wire-screen doors of mesh sufficiently fine 
to exclude all flies and insects and all vats shall be covered or 
screened. 

Sec. 16. No person shall remove from any dwelling or place 
in which exists any case of contagious, infectious or communicable 
disease, any bottles or other receptacle used in the sale or distri-; 
bution of milk, except with the permission of the Health Officer, 
after quarantine has been released. No person suffering from any 
venereal or communicable disease shall be employed to handle or 
come in contact with milk or milk products. Milk tickets shall 
not be used more than once. 


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Sec. 17. The Health Officer or Milk Inspector of the city of 
Holland may condemn or exclude from sale, in the city of Holland 
any or all milk or cream which are produced in whole or in part 
cu premises to which access, for the purpose of inspection, has been 
iviused the Health Onicer or Milk Inspector or either of thei 
Assistants. The Health Officer, Milk Inspector or any of their 
Assistants or any member of the Board of Health, may seize and 
confiscate any milk, cream or other milk products, sold, offered 
for sale or held with intent to sell within the city of Holland, con- 
trary to any section of this ordinance, and may pour out, color or 
otherwise denaturize any or all milk, cream or other milk products 
so seized, to prevent the use of same for food purposes. The 
Health Officer or Milk Inspector, or any of their Assistants may 
affix or cause to be affixed to any can, receptacle or vehicle contain- 
ing any condemned milk, cream or other milk products, a card 
or tag stating that same has been condemned and the reason there- 
for. Said tag or card so attached shall be deemed due and suffic- 
ient notice of condemnation. No milk, cream or other milk pro- 
duct, condemned as herein provided shall be used for human food, 
sold, held or offered for sale in the city of Holland. The Health 
Officer or Milk Inspector or their Assistants shall not be required 
to take sample of milk or cream which shall show a temperature 
higher than the allowed temperature specified in this ordinance, 
but may condemn any or all milk or cream showing a higher tem- 
perature than that specified. 

Sec. 18. Cows kept for the production of milk for sale or 
consumption in the city of Holland shall be free from tuberculosis. 
(Pateurized cream excepted.) Before any license shall be grant- 
ed to any applicant, under the provisions of this ordinance, the 
cows from which said applicant proposes to obtain milk shall have 
been tested by some person or persons legally qualified to admin- 
ister the tuberculin test or tests and who shall be approved by the 
Board of Health. For the purpose of diagnosis of tuberculosis in 
any of said cows the tuberculin test of any official approved method 
for the detection of tuberculosis may be used under the direction 
of the Board of Health. For the purpose of identification, all cows 
tested as herein provided shall be suitably tagged or branded and 
and all reacting animals isolated from the herd or disposed of ac- 
cording to the laws of the State of Michigan governing the dis- 
posal of animals which have reacted to the tuberculin test. 

Sec. 19. Utensils used for the sale, handling or delivery of 
milk or cream in the city of Holland, shall before using be 
thoroughly washed with pure water and salsoda, or some other 
cleaning agent, that will not contaminate the same, and shall be 
thoroughly sterilized with boiling water, dry heat or steam, at a 
temerature of not less than 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and shall be 
placed on a rack or some appliance to air until wanted for use. 


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Shipper’s cans shall be thoroughly rinsed with clean water before 
being returned to the shipper or producer. 


Sec. 20. Any person operating, owning or managing any 
hotel, restaurant, or other place where meals and lunches are 
served who shall serve, sell or expose for sale any milk, cream or 
other milk products shall be subject to the requirements of this 
ordinance and the inspection herein provided for. Provided, how- 
ever, that no license shall be required unless milk shall be sold 
at wholesale or retail. Cans, bottles, crates, or containers used 
for the sale or delivery of milk, shall be kept in a clean condition 
until returned to dealer supplying the same. 


Sec. 21. Stables in which cows from which milk is obtained 
for sale, delivery or distribution in the city of Holland, are housed 
Or confined shall be cleaned not less than once daily. Cleaning 
of manure or removal of bedding and litter shall be performed not 
less than one-half hour prior to milking. Manure shall be removed 
to not less than thirty feet from any such stable. Said stables 
shall contain not less than 500 cubic feet per cow, and shall be 
froperly ventilated and lighted. Said stable shall be fitted with 
either cement or tight plank floors which can be properly cleaned. 
If the stable contains a loft, the same shall be properly ceiled. All 
stables shall be whitewashed inside at least twice yearly and no 
undue amount of dust or filth shall be allowed to accumulate. Ali 
barnyards and premises to which cows have access which are kept 
wholly or in part for the production of milk or cream for sale or 
delivery in the city of Holland shall be kept free and clean from 
any undue accumulation of manure, barnyard sewerage or mud. 
The Health Officer or Milk Inspector may condemn or exclude from 
sale in the city of Holland milk produced on premises where the 
provisions of this section are not complied with. 

Sec. 22. Each and every day that a violation of this ordin- 
ance shall continue shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. 


Sec. 23 Any person violating any of the provisions of this 
ordinance shall be punished for the first offense, by fine not ex- 
ceeding Ten Dollars and costs of prosecution, and in default of the 
payment of any fine or costs, the court may imprison such person 
in the county jail of Ottawa county until such fine is paid, not, 
however, to exceed ten days; for the second offense, by a fine not 
exceeding Twenty-five Dollars and costs of prosecution, and in 
default of the payment of such fine the court may imprison such 
person in the county jail of said Ottawa county, not, however, to 
exceed twenty-five days; for the third offense, by a fine not exceed- 
ing One Hundred Dollars and costs of prosecution, and in default 
of the payment of such fine the court may imprison such person 
in the county jail of Ottawa county, not, however, to exceed ninety 
days. 


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Section 24. A copy of this ordinance shall be furnished by 
the City Clerk to every person who shall be granted a license as 
herein provided. 

Sec. 25. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent 
with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 26. This ordinance shall take effect the lst day of July, 
1912. 


No. 280 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Prevention of Fires, the Protection of the Pro- 
perty and Persons of Citizens against Damage and Accident 
resulting therefrom; and to Regulate the Storing of Inflam- 
able Rubbish and Combustible Material, and the handling of 
Gasoline and Naptha and other similiar Petroleum Products 
and all Explosives within the City of Holland. 

Passed February 21, 1912. Approved February 21, 1912. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Chimneys. 15. Dynamite. 
2. Pipes. 16. Nitro-Glycerine. 
3. Ashes. 17. Inspection, 
4. Rubbish. 18. May have chimneys 
5. Burning leaves, etc. cleaned. 
6. Shavings, etc, 19. Liability to fire. 
7. Candles, gas jets, etc. 20. Refusal to comply with 
8. Manholes to attic. orders. 
9. Gasoline naphtha, etc. 21. Charges. 
10. Storing of gascline, etc. 22. May order assistance. 
11. Receptacles where to be 23. Disorderly at fires. 
placed. 24. Imminent danger. 
12. “Fire Wall.” 25. Fire escapes. 
13. Underground storage 26. Repealing clause. 
tanks, 27. Penalty. 
14. Gaseline for cleaning, etc. 28. When to take effect. 


The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. No person shall hereafter construct any chimney, in 
any building within the City of Holland, except according to the 
following specifications: Such chimney shall be constructed of 
brick laid in lime mortar and the walls of said ‘chimney shall be 
at least four inches thick and either plastered on the inside with 
a smooth coat of plaster or lined with flue-lining; such chimney 
to extend at least two feet above the roof and shall rest upon the 


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ground or upon the foundation of the building and shall be so 
constructed as to admit of the flues therein being swept from top 
to bottom. 

Sec. 2. No pipe of any stove or furnace shall be put up in 
any house or building unless it be conducted into a chimney of 
brick, and no stove-pipe shall be placed or maintained within eight 
inches from any wood or other combustible material unless the 
Same is properly guarded by a safe non conducting substance. And 
all pipes that pass through ceilings or partitions shall be surround- 
ed by a double circle of tin or other metallic substance, connected 
together and with air holes through the connections between the 
said circles. No stove-pipe shall be used horizontally, in longer 
length than six feet in any shop or building in which the walls 
or ceilings are not plastered, unless said pipe is thoroughly riveted 
in every joint. 

Sec. 3. No ashes, except at manufactories where ashes are 
used for manufacturing purposes, shall be kept, or deposited in 
any part of this City within twenty feet of any building unless 
the same be in a close and secure metallic or earthen vessel, or 
brick or stone ashroom. 

Sec. 4. No person shall deposit any rubbish or any inflam- 
mable or combustible material or any ashes, burning coals, or 
embers within ten feet of any building, fence, or sidewalk, pave- 
ment, or other structure made of wood or other combustible mater- 
ial, or within ten feet of any wooden wall, partition, casing, base- 
board, floor or other woodwork of any brick, stone or iron build- 
ing or within ten feet of any lumber, timber, wood, hay, straw, 
shavings, rubbish, combustible material or substance whatever 
within the City of Holland, except in metallic, earthen, or other 
non-conbustible vessels or receptacles or in places specially desig- 
rated for that purpose by the chief of the fire department of the 
City of Holland. 

Sec. 5. No person shall burn any shavings, leaves, rubbish, 
or other combustible material in any street, road, lane, or private 
grounds, or kindle any fire in any street, road, lane, or on any 
wharf or on any private grounds within the City of Holland with- 
out the permission of the chief of the fire department or the mayor 
of said City. 

Sec. 6. No person, in removing any chips or shavings or com- 
bustible material shall scatter or strew them in any street or shall 
at any time direct, permit, or suffer any chips, shavings, or other 
combustible material to be taken, or thrown, or scattered in any 
street or alley within the City of Holland except by permission of 
the chief of the fire department or the mayor of said City. 

Sec. 7. No lighted candle or lamp or gas-jet or any other open 
light shall be used in any stable or other place or building where 
bay or straw or other combustible material shall be kept, unless 


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the same shall be well secured in a lantern or other covering, nor 
Shall a lighted cigar or pipe be carried in such building. 

Sec. 8. Every dwelling house or other building hereafter erect- 
ed, in the City of Holland, shall have, in some convenient place, 
a manhole or aperture leading to the attic or a space directly under: 
neath the roof of such building, and any person constructing such 
dwelling house or building without such manhole or aperture shall 
be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this ordinance. 

Sec. 9. The term, gasoline, or naphtha, as used herein, shall 
include any gasoline, naphtha, or other volatile petroleum products, 
by whatever name called, that will flash at a temperature less 
than 80 degrees Fahrenheit, as tested in a Tagliabeau open cup. 

Sec. 10. No person, firm or corporation keeping gasoline or 
naphtha, for sale or use, shall store, or permit to be stored, within 
the City of Holland any gasoline or naphtha within a building used 
for any other purpose except when contained in a vapor proof 
supply tank. 

Sec. 11. All cans, drums, barrels, tanks, or other receptacles 
holding or containing more than ten gallons, in which gasoline 
or naphtha is stored or handled, may be placed above ground only 
if stored in a separate well ventilated box or building not exceed- 
ing one story in height, which building, or box, shall be used exclu- 
sively for the storage of gasoline or naphtha and to be located at 
a distance of not less than ten feet from any other building. And 


such building or box shall, at all times, be locked when not in use. 


Where there is no yard room, it may be stored in iron or steel 
tanks placed under ground. All tanks, in which gasoline or naph- 
tha is stored, in quantities exceeding two hundred gallons, shall be 
placed, if above ground, at a distance of not less than ten feet 
from any building separated by a fire wall of not less than twelve 
inches thick, or at a distance of not less than twenty feet from any 
building or combustible material, the tank to set upon a substant- 
ial substructure not to exceed eight feet in height; provided, how- 
ever, that nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prohibit 
a manufacturer from bringing into his factory, in air-tight cans or 
barrels or drums, sufficient material for his daily operations; pro- 
vided further, that this regulation does not apply to gasoline in 
quantities not exceeding 60 gallons when kept in private homes for 
private use only. 

Sec. 12. The term ‘Fire wall’ as used in these regulations, 
shall mean a brick or concrete wall not less than twelve inches in 
thickness, or a stone wall not less than sixteen inches in thickness, 
the same to be without openings and to extend at least eighteen 
inches above the roof and to be properly capped. 

Sec. 13. All under ground storage tanks, used for storing 
gasoline or naphtha, shall be constructed of iron or steel coated on 
the outside with rust resisting material and thoroughly tested for 


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leaks before putting in place. All under ground tanks, of not to 
exceed five hundred gallons, shall be made of material not less than 
1-16 of an inch in thickness. All tanks, with a capacity of more 
than five hundred gallons, shall be made of material not less than 
1-8 of an inch in thickness. Each under ground tank shall be pro- 
vided with a vent pipe, having a goose neck, or pressure valve at- 
tached at the outer end; a filling pipe, having a screw pipe at the 
outer end, and an off-take pipe with a cap or pump at the outer 
end, all of sufficient size, made of iron, steel, brass, or other 
stable material and connected securely with top of tank, the off- 
take pipe extending down into the tank. All of these pipes shall 
run at a uniform ascending grade to a point outside of the building 
terminating in a well ventilated, iron and concrete box to be extend- 
ed into a building, provided no fires or lights, excepting electric 
lights installed in accordance with the national electrical code, are 
used in the room where located. 

Sec. 14. All gasoline or naphtha handled or used for cleaning 
or other purposes, where the vapor comes into contact with the 
open air, shall be used or handled outside of any tuilding or in a 
separate well ventilated building in which neither fires or lights 
other than electric lights, installed in accordance with the nation- 
al electrical code, are used, cr in a weil ventilated room in which 
no fires or lights, other than electric lights, installed in accordance 
with the national elecirical code, are used, separated from the 
other parts of the building by a fire wall constructed of brick, 
stone, or concrete. 

Sec. 15. No person, firm, or corporation keeping dynamite 
for sale or use shall store, or permit to be stored, within the City 
of Holland, any dynamite within a building used for any other pur- 
pose. Any building containing dynamite must be labeled dyna- 
mite in letters not less than six inches in height and two inches 
in width, on said building. The word, dangerous, must also be 
painted in plain sight of all passers by on all sides of buildings 
containing dynamite. 

Sec. 16. The introduction of Nitro Glycerine within the cor- 
porate limits of the City of Holland is hereby prohibited, and any 
person or persons having the same in his or their possession, or 
under his or their control, within the limits of said City, shall be 
liable to the penalty hereinafter prescribed. 

Sec. 17. The Chief of the Fire Department of the City of 
Holland or any member of the Board of Police and Fire Commis- 
sioners or City Inspector shall be and they are hereby authorized 
at any time when they may deem it proper between sunrise and 
sunset, to enter into any house or building, lots, yards, or prem- 
ises, in the City of Holland, to examine the fire places, hearths, 
chimneys, stoves, and pipes therein, the ovens, boilers, or other 
apparatus likely to cause fires also the places where ashes may be 


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deposited and all places where any gun-powder, hemp, flax, tow, 
straw, rushes, shavings, or other combustible material may be 
lodged, and the said officers, or any of them, shall give such direc- 
tions in regard to the several foregoing matters as they or any of 
them, may think expedient, either as to the removal, alteration. 
or better care and mangement thereof, which directions shall be 
obeyed and complied with by the members directed in that be- 
half. 

Sec. 18. The Chief of the Fire Department and members of 
the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners and the City Inspector 
shall also have authority to cause chimneys to be cleaned whenever 
they shall deem it necessary, and to require the tenant or tenants, 
owner or owners of any blacksmith shop, so to alter or construct, 
as the case may require, the chimneys in said shop, as to prevent 
sparks of fire from passing into the air, and may require the ceil- 
ings or sides of any shop or any part thereof to be plastered, and 
also to remove or abate, on neglect or refusal of the owner or 0oc- 
cupant, any cause from which the immediate danger of a fire may 
be apprehended. Any person refusing to comply with the directions 
of the said Chief of the Fire Department, or member of the Board 
of Police and Fire Commissioners, shall be liable to the penalty 
hereinafter prescribed. 

Sec. 19. Whenever the Chief of the Fire Department or mem- 
bers of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, and City In- 
spector shall find any building, or other structure, which for want 
of proper repair or by reason of age and dilapidated condition is 
especially liable to fire, and which is so situated as to endanger 
other buildings or property, or so occupied that fires would en- 
danger persons or property therein, and whenever any of the afore 
mentioned officers shall find in any building or upon any premises 
combustible or explosive material or inflammable conditions danger- 
cus to the safety of the said buildings or premises, they shall order 
the same to ke removed or remedied as the case may require, and 
such order shall forthwith be complied with by the owner or 0oc- 
cupant of said buildings or premises. 

Sec. 20. The Chief of the Fire Department of the City of 
Holland, or the members of the Board of Police and Fire Commis- 
sioners or City Inspector whenever any owner or occupant of any 
rremises shall refuse or neglect to comply with any lawful order 
given by any of said officers, or when any owner or occupant of any 
premises shall neglect or refuse to comply with any of the regula- 
tions hereinbefore contained, shall cause to be done whatever, in 
their judgment, they shall deem to be necessary, at the expense of 
such owner or occupant. And if the owner or occupant shall neg- 
lect or refuse to pay said expense, the said officers, or any of 
them, shall report the amount of said expense, properly itemized, 
to the Common Council, duly certified. Such report shall also 


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contain a description of the premises upon, or in respect to which, 
the expense was incurred, and the name of the owner, or person, 
if known, chargeable therewith. The cost of the expense, so in- 
curred, shall be a lien upon the lot or premises in respect to which 
said expense was incurred. 

Sec. 21. The amounts charged against the several lots or 
premises under the provisions of the foregoing sections of this or- 
dinance shall annually, in the month of September, be reported 
by the clerk to the Board of Assessors for assessment in the man- 
ner prescribed by the Charter. To the amount thus charged, to 
each description, the said clerk shall add and place in a separate 
column the legal interest computed from the date of the report of 
said officer to the first day of February, next ensuing, and shall 
also, in an additional column, add the sum of $1.00 for expense 
of assessment and advertising. Any person may pay the amoun! 
thus charged against any lot or premises, with legal interest com: 
puted thereon to the date of payment, to the City Treasurer, ai 
any time before the same shall have been reported to the Board ol’ 
Assessors for assessment. Receipts for such payment shall be is. 
sued by the said Treasurer in duplicate and shall be countersigned 
by the said clerk and one copy thereof filed with him; provided, 
that the performance of said work, at the expense of any of the 
officers afore mentioned, shall not exempt such owner or occupant 
from the penalties hereinafter prescribed. 

Sec. 22. The Chief of Police of the City of Holland, or any 
assistant in charge of Police Headquarters, shall have the power 
and it shall be his duty to respond to fire alarms by detailing a 
sufficient number of patrolmen to preserve order at fires, and the 
said Chief of Police, or his assistants, shall have control of the 
streets, alleys, sidewalks, and all grounds and places adjacent to 
any fire in said City during the continuance thereof, and they may 
blockade any such streets, sidewalks, or other places and prevent 
passage therein, except to the mayor of the City and the owners, 
landlords, or tenants occupying buildings inside the fire line. They 
may order any person present to stand back from a fire such dis- 
tance as they may designate by establishing a fire line. They may 
command the assistance of any special police, constables, and such 
other persons present, as they may deem necessary to preserve 
order, to assist in extinguishing the fire and to prevent its spread- 
ing, and in saving property from injury and unlawful appropria- 
tion. 

Sec. 23. Every person, present at, or near a fire, who shall 
conduct himself in a disorderly manner, or neglect or refuse to obey 
any proper order of the Chief of Police, or of the department de- 
tailed by him, as aforesaid, or who shall resist, obstruct, hinder, or 
abuse any person or officer then and there in the discharge of his 
duties, shall be subject to the penalty hereinafter prescribed and 


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may be arrested by any officer present who is authorized to make 
arrests for offenses against the City Ordinances. 


Sec. 24. Whenever, in the opinion of the Mayor or Common 
Council of the City of Holland, the City is in imminent danger from 
fire, the Mayor or Common Council may make such orders and 
adopt such measures and regulations as, in their judgment, they 
may deem best to prevent such fire and secure the safety of the 
City therefrom. And it shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire 
Department, the Chief of Police, the Aldermen, and every member 
of the Police and Fire Departments, to see that such orders are 
obeyed and such measures and regulations carried into effect. All 
persons who shall neglect or refuse to obey such orders, or conform 
to such regulations, shall be liable to the penalties hereinafter 
rrescribed. 

Bec2b. = A buildings within the City of Holland, three stor- 
ies or more in height, in which any part or parts of said building 
above the second story are used for offices, salesrooms, lodge halls, 
dance-halls, or public meetings, of any kind, shall be equipped with 
suitable and reasonably safe metal fire escapes. Such fire escapes 
shall be of a kind, pattern, or design as to be practical and reason- 
ably safe for all inmates and occupants of the ‘building in which 
they are required. Any owner, agent or lessee of any such build- 
ing or buildings, who shall neglect or refuse to provide and place 
such fire escapes shall be deemed to have violated the provisions 
of this ordinance and upon conviction thereof, shall be liable to the 
penalties hereinafter prescribed. 


Sec. 26. Ordinance entitled, An Ordinance Relative to the 
Prevention of Fires in the City of Holland, passed Dec. 21st, 1886, 
and approved Dec. 22nd, 1886, and all other ordinances and parts 
of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 27. Any person, who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 
fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) and costs of 
prosecution, or by imprisonment in the City Jail or County Jail of 
Ottawa County for a period not exceeding ninety days, and in case 
a fine and costs only shall be imposed, the offender shall be sentenc- 
ed to imprisonment in the City Jail or County Jail of Ottawa County 
until the payment of such fine and costs, not, however, to exceed 
ninety days. 

Sec. 28. This ordinance shall take effect ninety days after its 
passage. 


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No. 282 
AN ORDINANCE 


To regulate the use of Carts, Drays, Hackney Coaches, Omni- 
buses, Automobiles, and every description of Carriages and 
Vehicles and the riding and driving of Horses and other An- 
imals and the use thereof on any of the Streets, Alleys, and 
public places of the City of Holland and to repeal all Ordin- 
ances inconsistent therewith. 


Passed April 3, 1912, Approved April 4, 1912. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Rules of road. trees. 

2. Speed. 6. Penalty. 

3. Cross-walk. 7 Repealing Clause, 
4. Horses, etc., to hitched. 8. When to take effect. 


5. Not to fasten to shade 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. The owner, operator, driver or person in charge of 
any cart, dray, wagon, hackney-coach omnibus, automobile, motor- 
cycle, carriage, buggy or other vehicle propelled or driven upon 
the streets of the City of Holland, shall conform to and observe the 
following rules of the road upon all streets, alleys, avenues and 
public places in the City of Holland. 

(1) Vehicles shall be driven in a careful manner and with 
due regard for the safety and convenience of pedestrians and all 
other vehicles. 

(2) Vehicles shall keep to the right side of the street except 
when necessary to turn to the left in crossing or in overtaking an- 
other vehicle. 

(3) All vehicles meeting shall pass each other to the right. 

(4) Vehicles overtaking shall keep to the left of the ove: - 
taken vehicle in passing. 

(5) Vehicles moving slowly shall keep as close as possible 
to the curb on the right, allowing more swiftly moving vehicles free 
passage to their left. 

(6) Drivers or operators of vehicles before turning, stopping 
or changing their course shall make sure that such movement can 
be made in safety. 

(7) Vehicles turning to the right into another street shall 
pass and turn the corner as near to the right-hand curb as possible. 

(8) Vehicles turning to the left into another street shall 
pass to the right of and beyond the center of the street intersection 
before turning. 

(9) ‘Vehicles crossing from one side of the street to another 


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shall do so by turning to the left so as to head in the same direc- 
tion as the traffic on that side of the street towards which ths 
crossing is made. 

(10) No vehicle shall be driven through a procession except 
with the permission of a police-officer. 

(11) When a vehicle shall approach a street intersection at 
approximately the same time that another vehicle is approaching 
said intersection upon the intersecting street, that vehicle which 
shall be to the right of the other shall have the right of way. 

(12) No vehicle shall cross any main thoroughfare or make 
any turn thereon at a greater speed than one-half of the legal 
speed limit upon such thoroughfares. 

(13) The driver or operator of every vehicle shall give some 
plainly visible or audible sign of aprpoach and shall keep his vehicle 
at not less than six feet from the running board or lower step 
of any street-car which is stopping for the purpose of taking on or 
discharging passengers, and if, for any reason, it is not possible 
to preserve the distance of six feet from such running board or 
lower step as herein prescribed, then the driver or operator of 
said vehicle shall stop the same until such car shall have taken 
on or discharged its passengers and again started. 

(14) No vehicle shall remain backed up to the curb except 
it be actually loading or unloading, and in such cases no longer 
than the actual loading or unloading requires and in no case to 
exceed a period of thirty minutes. 

(15) The horse or horses or other animals attached to the 
vehicle backed up to the curb shall be turned at right angles to 
the vehicle and in the direction in which the traffic upon that side 
of the street is moving. 

(16) No vehicle shall remain standing at the curb between 
the hours of 8 A. M. and 6 P. M. for a longer period than one 
hour on any of the following streets: Highth Street between 
Lincoln Avenue and Pine Street; River Street between Fifth Street 
and Thirteenth Street. 

(17) .Any vehicle standing at the curb upon any portion 
of the streets enumerated in Sec. 16 shall move away from such 
curb at the request of any police-officer or the owner of the abut- 
ting property. 

(18) No vehicle shall stand within any street intersection 
nor nearer than ten feet to the lot line on the intersecting street. 

(19) No vehicle shall stop at any crosswalk for a longer 
period than necessary to permit the occupants to alight or persons 
to enter said vehicle, or in any such manner as to obstruct free 
passage upon said crosswalks. 

(20) No vehicle shall stop on any street except within two 
feet of the curb, or in such way as to obstruct free passage of the 
street. 


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(21) The driver of any vehicle shall stop upon the signal 
from a police officer. 


(22) The officers and men of the fire department with their 
fire apparatus of all kinds, when going to or on duty at or return- . 
ing from a fire, and the officers, men and vehicles of the police 
department and all ambulances shall have the right of way in any 
street and through any procession except over vehicles carrying 
the United States mail. 


(23) No vehicle shall be allowed to remain upon or be 
driven through any street so as to willfully blockade or obstruct 
the street, and no vehicle shall be so overloaded that the horse 
or horses or motive power shall be unable to move it. 


(24) No automobile or autocar shall [be managed by a 
chauffer under the age of sixteen years, unless such chauffer shall 
be at the time accompanied by a person over 16 years old, who is 
accustomed to and familiar with the operation of automobiles or 
autocars. Provided that the Board of Police and Fire Commission 
ers may issue permits to persons under the age of 16 years, if in 
their judgment such persons are to be trusted in the operation of 
such automobile. 


(25) The police department shall have all the powers and 
duties in relation to the management of the vehicular traffic neces- 
Sary to enforce the same under the conditions of this ordinance. 


(26) The police department shall see that this ordinance is 
posted in all public stations and at hack, cab and other stables, 
and shall keep copies and issue them upon _ application. 
And it shall be the duty of the owner and person in charge, 
of all public stables garages and other places where vehicles of any 
description are kept for hire to see that this ordinance is kept 
posted in a prominent place therein. It shall also be the duty of 
all persons keeping and operating delivery wagons, trucks, etc., to 
keep a copy of this ordinance in a conspicuous place in their re- 
spective stables or garages. 

Sec. 2. No person shall race horses nor ride or drive any 
horse or other animal upon any of the streets or parts of streets 
named in subdivision sixteen (16) of Sec. 1 of this ordinance at 
a faster rate of speed than ten miles an hour nor upon any street 
of the City of Holland at a faster rate of speed than fifteen miles 
an hour provided, however .that The Board of Police and Fire Com 
missioners may designate any street as a speedway for holding 
speed contests upon the following conditions: That such use of 
said street shall be with the consent of a majority of the property 
owners along said street and that the person or persons or associa- 
tion desiring to hold such speed contests shall provide proper 
guards for street intersection and shall confrom to such other re- 
gulations as may be prescribed by The Board of Police and Fire 


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Commissioners for the prevention of injury to persons or property. 

Sec. 3. No person shall halt any horse or other animal on 
any cross-walk, nor shall any person drive or lead any horse or 
other animal on any sidewalk in the city except in passing to and 
from any lot. 


Sec. 4. No person shall leave any horse or other animal, 
whether attached to any vehicle or not, to stand in any public 
street, lane, or alley, or public space in the city unless such horse 
or other animal shall be securely tied, hitched, guarded, or held. 


Sec. 5. No person shall fasten any horse or other animal to 
any ornamental or shade tree in any of the streets of the city or 
to any box or case around such tree or place such horse or animal 
where it may injure such tree. 

Sec. 6. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a 
fine of not exceeding One Hundred Dollars and costs of prosecu- 
tion, or by imprisonment in the City jail or the County jail of 
Ottawa County for a period not exceeding ninety days; and in cass 
a fine and costs only be imposed, the offender may be sentenced 
to be imprisoned in the City Jail or the County jail of Ottawa 
County until the payment thereof, not however to exceed ninety 
days. 

Sec. 7. An Ordinance passed Jan. 19th, 1897 and approved 
Jan. 20th, 1897, entitled: 

“An Ordinance prohibiting the riding and driving of horses 
and other animals upon the sidewalks, regulating the use and 
speed thereof upon the streets and providing for the hitching and 
placing of the same.” 


And all other ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent 
or conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby 
repealed. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
passage. 


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No. 286 
AN ORDINANCE 


To regulate the use, operation and equipment of Motor Ve- 
hicles and Motor Cycles upon the Streets and Public 
Places of the City of Holland 


Passed December 4, 1912, Approved December 5, 1912. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. What included. 3. Bell, horn, etc. 

2. Discharge of oil, smoke, etc 4. Mufflers. 
prohibited. 5. Penalty. 


6. When to take effect. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1 Whenever the term ‘‘motor vehicle’? is used in this 
ordinance it shall be construed to include automobiles, locomobiles, 
and all our vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular power, 
except traction engines, road rollers, the cars of electric and steam 
railways and other motor vehicles running only upon rails or 
tracks; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed 
to apply to or affect bicycles or tri-cycles or other vehicles as are 
propelled exclusively by muscular power. 


Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or for 
any owner of any motor vehicle or motor cycle to permit to be 
operated upon the streets, alleys and public places of this city, any 
motor vehicle or motor cycle so as to permit to escape therefrom 
any unnecessary noxious smoke, gas, steam or other offensive odor 
or so as to discharge any embers, oil or residue from the fuel used 
in the operation thereof. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
operate or for any owner thereof to permit to be operated upon 
the public streets, alleys and public places of this city any motor 
vehicle or motor cycle, the exhaust pipes of which used for the 
carrying of the exhaust gases from such motor vehicle or motor 
cycle are not parallel to the ground. 

Sec. 3. Every motor vehicle or motor cycle while being used 
upon the streets, alleys and public places of this city, shall be 
provided with a suitable bell, horn or other signal device, and it 
shall be unlawful for any person to use any device which will not 
produce an abrupt sound sufficiently loud to serve as an adequate 
warning of danger, and it shall be unlawful for any person operat- 
ing any motor vehicle or motor cycle to make or cause any un- 
necessary noise with such bell, horn or other signal device, or to 
use the same except as a warning of danger. 

Sec. 4. No person shall operate, nor shall any owner of any 
motor vericle or motor cycle permit to be operated on any of 


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the streets, alleys or public places of this city, any motor vehicle 
or motor cycle which has not a suitable muffler in a proper and 
efficient working condition; and it shall be unlawful for any per- 
son to operate or for any owner of any motor vehicle or motor- 
cycle to permit to be operated any motor vehicle or motor cycle 
with the muffler cut out or not in operation. 


Sec. 5. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the 
provisions of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than one hun- 
dred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment at 
hard labor in the City Jail of the City of Holland, or the County 
Jail of the County of Ottawa for a period of not less 
than five days nor more than ninety days, in the _ discre- 
tion of the court or magistrate, before whom such conviction is 
had; and in case a fine and costs only are imposed the person so 
convicted may be imprisoned in the City Jail of the City of Holland 
or the County Jail of the County of Ottawa until such fine and costs 
shall be paid not exceeding ninety days; and, provided further, 
that a separate and distinct offense shall be considered as com- 
mitted every day any motor vehicle or motor cycle is used upon 
the streets, alleys and public places in violation of any of the pro- 
visions of this ordinance. 


Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


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No. 287 
AN ORDINANCE 


An Ordinance to regulate the Planting, Preservation and Care 
of Trees, Plants and Shrubs in the Streets and Boulevards 
of the City of Holland 


Passed December 4, 1912. Approved December 5, 1912. 


Sec. Sec. 
1. Park and Cemetery Trus” 10. Guards. 
tee to have control of. 11. Wires not to be attached 
2. Rules and regulations. to trees. 
3. Trees to have approval of 12. Wires not to come in cun- 
Board. tract with. 
4. Written permission. 13. Not to interfere with 
5. No hitching to trees. planting. 
6. Removal or injuring of. 14. Penalty. 
7. Improvements affecting 15. Permits. 
trees. 16. Board may specify varie- 
8. Trimming. ties, 
9. Building materials not to 17.. Enforcement of this Or” 
be placed near trees, dinance. 


18. When to take effect. 
The City of Holland Ordains: 


Sec. 1. The Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees shall have 
full power and authority over all trees, plants and shrubs in the 
streets, parks and public places of the City of Holland, also streets 
and boulevards belonging to the City of Holland, including the 
right to plant trees and care for the same, and the said Board of 
Park and Cemetery Trustees is authorized to employ competent 
men, skilled and learned in the science of forestry, when by said 
Board deemed necessary, and who shall work under the controi 
and direction of the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees. 

Sec. 2. The caring for street trees shall be subject to such 
rules and regulations as the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees 
may adopt, and said Board shall have the right and power to add 
new rules and regulations from time to time as may be required 
for the proper care of such trees. 

Sec. 3. No shade or ornamental tree, plant or shrub shall be 
planted in any of the streets, parks, public places or boulevards 
belonging thereto, until the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees 
shall have first approved of the kind, size and variety thereof, 
designated the location therefor, and granted a permit for plant- 
ing the same. 

Sec. 4. No person shall, without the written permission of 
the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees remove, destroy, break, 


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cut, deface, trim, or in any way injure or interfere with any tree, 
plant or shrub that is now, or may be hereafter growing in any 
street, park, public place or boulevard in the City of Holland, or’ 
belonging thereto; provided, however, that nothing in this section 
shall be construed to apply to the removal of any trees or root, 
or shrub or part thereof, wherever the same shall be necessary for 
the construction of sidewalks, sewers or pavements, or other public 
improvements. Whenever it becomes necessary to trim trees in 
any way for any of the aforesaid improvements, the Board shall 
be notified prior thereto. 

Sec. 5. No person shall hitch or fasten any horse or other 
animal, to any tree or shrub or to any device intended to protect 
any tree or shrub now or hereafter growing in any street, park, 
public place or boulevard in the City of Holland, or belonging 
thereto, nor shall any person permit a horse to stand near enough 
to any tree, plant. or shrub, to bite or rub against or in any other 
way injure or deface the same; nor shall any person place a post 
for the hitching of horses within five feet of any tree, plant or 
shrub now or hereafter growing in any street, park, public place 
or boulevard in the City of Hoiland, or belonging thereto, unless 
proper precaution has been taken to sufficiently protect the tree 
plant or shrub; nor shall any person place or fasten any poster, 
hand-bill or any other object on any tree, plant or shrub now 
or hereafter growing in any = street, park, public place, 
or on any guard or protection of the same, nor shall any 
person deposit or throw upon any street, alley, or public place, 
or into any gutter thereof, any salt water, or deposit in any such 
gutter any receptacle containing salt or salt water or other mat- 
ter injurious to trees or shrubs. 


Sec. 6. No person shall remove, injure or misuse any guard 
or device placed or intended to protect any tree, plant or shrub 
growing in any street, park, public place or boulevard in the City 
of Holland or belonging thereto, nor shall any person use for the 
protection of trees, any tree guards unless the same are of a 
style approved by the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees. 

‘Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of every City department or 
Board or other officer, to make known to the Board of Park and 
Cemetery Trustees their intention, in the improvement of any 
street or boulevard in the City of Holland, before the final 
adoption of the plans, of such improvement wharever street 
trees might be affected. 


Sec. 8. The owner of every lot or parcel of land in the 
City of Holland, and land or lots adjacent to streets or boulevards 
controlled by the City of Holland, shall trim all branches of 
any tree or trees now or hereafter growing on their premises 
which shall overhang any street, alley or public highway, so that 


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there shall be a clear height of ten feet above the surface of the 
street, alley, or highway, unobstructed by branches; and such own- 
ers shall remove all branches from trees on their property that 
seriously interfere with street trees and remove all decayed or 
broken limbs or branches that overhang such street, alley or 
public highway, and when such trees are dead or badly diseased, 
shall, upon written notice, remove the same. 


The Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees and their authorized 
agents and employees shall also have power and authority to enter 
any lot that contains trees and shrubs, and examine the same, and 
if found to be infested with insects or disease, shall serve written 
notice on the owner or his agent or tenant, to destroy such in- 
sects or disease within ten days after date of such notice, and in 
case the owner, agent or tenant neglects to do such work, the 
Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees shall have the power and 
authority to enter such lot and destroy such insects or disease, or, 
if necessary, remove the trees or shrubs entirely, and charge said 
owner with the actual cost thereof; and such charge shall become 
a lien against said property. In the discretion of the Common 
Council such work may be done by said Board of Park and 
Cemetery Trustees and paid by the City of Holland, out of the 
general fund of said City. 


Any person who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions 
of this section within ten days after receiving notice from the 
Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees of the particular thing to 
be done under this section, shall be subject to the penalty in this 
ordinance provided for. 

It shall be lawful for the said Board of Park and Cemetery 
Trustees, to spray trees, plants and shrubs growing upon private 
property, if so requested to do by the owner thereof, and the 
cost and expense thereof, as fixed by the said Board shall be a 
charge against said owner, and may be collected by law, or shall 
be a lien against the premises upon which such trees, plants or 
shrubs are growing, to be collected and assessed as in case of 
other special assessments, or delinquent bills due to the City of 
Holland. 

Sec. 9. No person shall hereafter, without the written per- 
mit of the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees, trespass, place 
or maintain upon the ground in any street or public place, in the 
City of Holland, stone, cement or other material, which shall im- 
pede the free passage of water and air to the roots of any tree 
pow or hereafter growing in such street or public place, without 
leaving an open space of ground not less than two feet in width 
all around the trunk of such tree, and where there is no such 
space about any existing tree in any street or public place in the 
City of Holland, the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees may 


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make such open space or cause the same to be made; provided, 
however, that in making such open space the same shall not re- 
guire the breaking or destroying of any part of any side walk or 
pavement already constructed; provided, Surther, that nothing 
herein contained shall be construed as requiring the City of Hol- 
land, in the construction of sidewalks or pavements, to leave any 
open space around the trunk of any tree where such tree is plant- 
ed or grows within the lines now or hereafter established as side- 
walk line, but, provided further, that in the event that any such 
tree grows within a distance of less than one foot from the inner 
or outer established sidewalk line, then, and in that event, the 
said sidewalk may be so constructed as to leave an open space of 
one foot in width around the trunk of such tree. 


Sec. 10. In the erection, repair or removal of any building 
or structure, the owner or owners thereof shall place or cause to 
be placed such guards around all nearby trees in the street or 
public place, as shall effectually prevent injury to them. 


Sec. 11. No person, firm or corporation shall, without first 
obtaining permission of the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees, 
attach any electric wire, or other wires, insulator or any other de- 
vice for holding electric wire, to any tree now or hereafter grow- 
ing in any street or public place under the control of the City of 
Holland. 


Sec. 12. Every person, firm or corporation, having any wire 
or wires charged with electricity shall securely fasten the same 
so that such wire or wires shall not come in contact with any 
tree in any street or public place in the City of Holland. 


Sec. 13. No person, firm or corporation, shall prevent, delay 
or interfere with the work of planting, pruning, cultivating, spray- 
ing or removal of any tree plant or shrub that is now or may be 
hereafter growing in any street or public place in the City of 
Holland, or in the removal of stone, cement or other material 
about the trunk of any tree that is now growing or may be here- 
after growing in any street or public place in the City of Holland. 


Sec. 14. Any violation of or failure to comply with the pro- 
visions or requirements of this ordinance shall, on conviction of 
the offender, be punished by a fine not less than five dollars, and 
not more than one hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, 
or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of Holland, or the 
County Jail of Ottawa County, for a period of not less than five 
days and not more than thirty days; and in case a fine and costs 
only are imposed the person so convicted may be imprisoned in the 
City Jail of the City of Holland, or the County Jail of Ottawa 
County, until the payment of said fine and costs, not exceeding 
thirty days. 


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Sec. 15. Every permit granted by the Board of Park and 
Cemetery Trustees shall specifically describe the work to be done 
under it, and shall expire at the end of such time as is therein 
specified, which shall in no event be more than sixty days from its 
date, and said permit shall be void at any time when the intent 
thereof is violated. No charge shall be made for such permit. 

Sec. 16. The Board of Park and Cemetery Trustes shall have 
power to specify varieties of trees that shall be planted on every 
street, alley or boulevard. 

Sec. 17. It shall be the duty of the Board of Park and 
Cemetery Trustees to see that the provisions of this ordinance are 
obeyed, and prosecutions for all violations of the ordinance shall 
be instituted by the Board of Park and Cemetery Trustees, or any 
City official, or citizen of the City of Holland, in accordance with 
the Charter and ordinances of the City of Holland. 

Sec. 18 This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after 
its passage. 


No. 299 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors at Wholesale, as a 
Beverage 
Passed April 27, 1914. Approved April 27, 1914. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. License required. 10. To be ground floor space; 

2. Application for, signs. 

3. Bond. 11. Unlawful for intoxicated 

4, Term of license. persons, etc., to be in place. 

5. Revocation of license. 12. No games in place. 

G6. Noise, intOxicated persons, 13. Wholesale quantities, what 
ete, are, 

7. Hours, 14, Penalty. 

8. Hours of druggists. 15. Repealing clause. 

9. Shades, curtains, etc. 16. When to take effect. 


THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS: 


Sec. 1. No person, firm or corporation, shall sell or keep for sale 
intoxicating liquors as a beverage, within the limits of the City of 
Holland, without first having obtained from the Common Council 
of the city of Holland a license therefore, in the manner and under 
the conditions hereinafter provided: Provided That unless herein 
otherwise specified, the terms and conditions of this ordinance shall 
not apply to druggists and registered pharmacists in the selling of 
any such liquors for medical, mechanical sacramental and scientific 


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purposes and under and in strict compliance with the general laws 
of the State of Michigan. 

Sec. 2.—Every person, firm or corporation, desiring to sell and 
keep for sale intoxicating liquors as a beverage, within the city of 
Holland shall each year before entering upon such business make 
application in writing therefor to the Common Council of the City of 
Holland, which application shall specify the location and describé 
completely the interior arrangement of and the wall and floor en- 


trances to the building in which it is proposed to keep the same; in 


case of a firm such application shall set forth the names of all part- 
ies constituting such firm; and such application shall in the case of 
a corporation set forth the name or names of the person or persons 
who will have active charge and management of the business; each 
application shall also designate the persons proposed as sureties on 
the bond as hereinafter provided. 

in passing upon any application the Common Cornctl shall have 
the right and power to consider the fitness of the person or persons 
so applying, and to consider the past conduct of such person or per- 
sons in the same or similar business. Such application shall contain 
the further provision that the applicant or applicants agree to be 
bound by and observe all the terms and conditions of the ordinance 
under which such license is granted. 

Sec. 8. After the granting of such application oy the Common 
Council and before the issuing of the license the applicant or ap- 
plicants shall execute a bond, the sufficiency of which shall be deter- 
mined by the Common Council, to the City of Holland, in the sum 
of Two Thousand ($2,000) Doliars, with two sureties who shall be 
male citizens and free-holders of the City of Holland, neither of 
whom shall be a surety upon more than two bonds required by the 
provisions of this ordinance, and each of whom shall justify in real 
estate in the city of Holland, in the sum equal to the amount of such 
bond, over and above all indebtedness and obligations as surety or 
otherwise, and all exemptions from sale on execution, which ‘bonds 
shall be conditioned that such applicant or applicants shall keep and 
maintain an orderly and well regulated place, the Common Council 
being the Judge thereof, during the continuance of such license and 
shall observe all the conditions of sai i ordinance and shall pay all 
the fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed upon him for the 
violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance. Provided, That 
such applicant, or applicants, may, at their option furnish a bone 
signed by some corporation, duly authorized to execute bonds within 
the State of Michigan. 

Sec. 4. No license granted under the provision of this ordin- 
ance shall ‘be granted for a longer time than to expire on the First 
Monday of June next after the time when the same is granted. 

Sec. 5. Every license provided for by the terms of this ordin- 


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ance shall be granted upon the express condition and shall expressly 
provide that such license may, for any non-compliance with the terms 
and conditions upon which it is granted or on account of the viola- 
tion of any of the provisions of this ordinance, the Council to be 
the judge thereof, or of any liquor law of the State of Michigan, in 
the discretion of the Common Council of the City of Holland, be by 
them revoked. And any person, firm or corporation, holdiny such 


license shall, in addition to any and all other penalties imposed there- 


upon forfeit all payments made for such license. 

Sec. 6. No person, firm or corporation, licensed hereunder, 
shall by himself, his clerk, servant, agent or employee, permit in or 
about his place so licensed, any improper noise or disturbance, or any 
breach of the peace, nor permit to be or remain in his place any in- 
toxicated person, any person in the habit ~f becoming intoxicated, 
any person who shall heretofore or hereafte) have been arrested and 
convicted of being drunk, any minor under the age of 21 years, or 
any person to whom it is forbidden by law to sell, furnish or give 
any intoxicating liquors, or any person with reference to whom 
any notice in writing has been served on such licensee not to sell 
furnish or give any intoxicating liquors, as provided by the general 
laws of the state of Michigan or ordinances of the City of Holland 
or any female or any person loitering or loafing 1n such place, or 
any person who has no immediate business there except regularly 
hired male employees. 

Sec. 7. All places licensed hereunder shall be closed between 
the hours of 10 o’clock in the afternoon and 6 o’clock in the fore- 
noon of each week day from the first day of May to the 31st day of 


“October, both inclusive, and from the hour of 9 o’clock in the after- 


noon to the hour of 7 o’clock in the forenoon of each week day and 
from.the first day of November to the 30th day of April, both inclus- 
ive and on Sundays and legal holidays as are designated by the 
liquor laws of the State of Michigan. 

Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for any druggist or registered 
pharmacist to sell, furnish or give any of the liquors mentioned in 
this ordinance during the hours and times in this section specifically 
mentioned. Any druggist or registered pharmacist violating any of 
the provisions of this section shall be punished in the same manner 
as is hereinafter specified for violations of this ordinance. 

Sec. 9. No person, firm, or corporation licensed hereunder, 
shall at any time, by himself, his clerk, servant, agent or employee, 
permit or maintain any shades, curtains, screens, or anything which 
in any way will obstruct a full and open view of the entire premises 
trom the street or alley upon which the same is located. 


Sec. 10. The premises used for the business licensed hereun- 
der, shall be a ground floor space, and shall consist of but a single 
room and shall have no partitions, walls, or any obstructions of any 


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kind within said premises used in said business room which will 
in any way prevent a full view of the premises. There shail be no 
doors or other openings in said room except a front coor, and all 
other openings shall be permanently closed except windows for the 
emission of light which shall be barred on the outside with a strip of 
iron not more than two inches-apart. Nor shal any person licensed 
hereunder, keep or have on said premises a place for the drinking of 
said liquor, nor shall said person or persons allow the drinking of 
any liquor in said building or cn the premises on which said build- 
ing is located. 

Nor shall any person licensed hereunder, by himself, his clerk, 
his servant, agent or employee, keep, put up or maintain any signs 
in front of his premises so licensed or on or in any window of said 
place designated or referring in any way, to the business conducted 
therein. 

Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any of the persons mention- 
ed in Section 6 of this ordinance to be or remain in any place 
licensed hereunder, or to purchase, receive or attemp: to purchase 
or receive any of the liquors meztioned in this ordinance in any 
place licensed hereunder: Provided, That the testimony of any minor 
given in relation thereto shall not be used against such minor. 


Sec. 12. No person, firm or corporation, licexsed hereunder, 
by himself, his clerk, servant, agent or employee, shall permit any 
games to be played on the premises used for the »usyness licensed, 
or permit any persons to play at cards, dice or any other game in 
such place of business. 


Sec. 13. No person, firm or corporation, doing business under 
a license granted under the provisions of this ordinance shall by 
himself, his servant, agent or employee, sell or furnish any intoxicat- 
ing liquors to any person or persons, except in wholesale quantities, 
and the sale to be entirely consumated by a purchxse and complete 
delivery and removal from the place of sale of the said intoxicating 
liquors in one quantity and in one delivery. 


Sec. 14. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance on conviction thereof shall be punished ‘by a fine 
not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or 
by imprisonment in the city jail or the county jail of Ottawa county 
for a period not exceeding 90 days or both such fine and imprison- 
ment in the discretion of the court, and upon the conviction of any 
persons licensed hereunder, his clerk, servant, agent or employee, 
of this ordinance or any liquor law of the state of Michigan, the 
record of such shall be sufficient ground for a revsretion of the 
license granted such perscn, or his firm, corporation or principal. 


Sec. 15. An ordinance, entitled, ‘‘An ordinance co regulate and 
license all places where any spirituous, malt, brewed, fermented or 


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intoxicating liquors are sold in the city of Holland. Passed May 
the 7th, 1913, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 16. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 301 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Soliciting Funds or Aid on the Public Streets, and 
Public Places in the City of Holland 
Passed, May 6, A. D. 1914. Approved May 6, A. D 1914 


Sec. 
1. Soliciting, etc., unlawful. 3. Penalty. 
2. Application for special per- 4, When to take effect. 


mit. 
THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS: 


Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit any 
funds, alms, aid, assistance or support, for himself, or any other 
person or object or to _ solicit the same by or _ through 
any device or subterfuge, such as_ selling pencils, shoe 
laces, court plaster, or any other articles or commodity, book, 
picture, sketch, poem, verse, history, story, or any other form, in 
any of the streets or public places in the City of Holland, or from 
house to house, in said City, unless such person shall have first 
obtained a permit for so doing from the Mayor of the City of Hol- 
land. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall apply to the 
collection of any money or goods of any kind, by the citizens of the 
City of Holland for any local religious, charitable, or humane pur- 
pose. 


Sec. 2. Any person desiring such permit, shall make 
application therefor to the City Clerk, in writing, which 
application shall state the name, age, residence, and sex 
of the applicant, and the object for which such permit is ap- 
plied, and the time during which the applicant desires the same to 
be effective. Such application shall then be referred to the Mayor 
of the City of Holland for his approval, and if he approves of the 
same a permit shall be issued in accordance with the terms of the 
application, unless modified ‘by the Mayor. Each person to whom a 
permit is granted shall wear a suitable badge, to be provided by the 
City of Holland, designating such person as having been granted a 
permit, which shall be securely fastened to the outside of the cloth- 
ing of such person so as to be plainly visible to any person facing 
the wearer thereof, and no permit so issued shall be of any force or 
effect unless such badge is so worn. A deposit of one dollar shall 


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be required from the person at the time of issuing such badge to 
whom the same is issued, unless such payment shall be expressely 
waived by the Mayor. 

Sec. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this 
ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of 
not exceeding fifty dollars. and the costs of prosecution, or by im- 
prisonment in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa County, for a 
period of not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprison- 
ment in the discretion of the court or magistrate; and in case a fine 
and costs only shall be imposed the offender may be confined in the 
city jail or county jail of Ottawa County until the payment of such 
fine and costs, not exceeding thirty days. 

Sec. 4. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. ; ; 


No. 303 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Saloons and Saloonkeepers 
Passed by vote of electors June 6, 1914. Declared passed, June 
8, 1914. 


Sec. 
1. To obtain license for. 7. Ground floor. 
2. Application for. 8. No cards, dice, etc. 
8. Bonds. 9. Expiration of license. 
4. No music, noise, etc., in. 10. Penalty. 
5. Hours. 12. When to take effect. 
6. Shades, curtains, etc. 11. Repealing clause. 


THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS 


Sec. 1. No person shall keep a saloon where intoxicating 
liquors are sold or kept for sale. within the City of Holland, with- 
out having first obtained a license therefor, from the Common 
Council of the City of Holland, in the manner and under the con- 
ditions hereinafter provided. 


‘Sec. 2. Every person desiring to keep a saloon for the sale 
of intoxicating liquors, within the City of Holland, shall each year, 
before entering upon such business, make application therfore, 
in writing, to the Common Council of the City of Holland, which 
application shall specify the location, and describe completely the 
interior arrangement of and the entrances to the building in which 
it is proposed to carry on such business. Each application shall 
also designate the names of the persons proposed as sureties on 
the bond hereinafter provided. 


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Sec. 3. After the granting of such application by the Com- 
mon Council, and before the issuing of the license, the applicant 
shall pay into the City Treasury, annually, the sum of Five Hun- 
dred Dollars. Hach applicant shall, also, before such license is is- 
sued to him, execute a bond, the sufficiency of which shall be de- 
termined by the Common Council, to the City of Holland, in the 
sum of Two Thousand Dollars, with two sureties, who shall be 
male citizens and freeholders of the City of Holland, neither of 
whom shall be a surety upon more than two bonds required by the 
provisions of this ordinance, and each of whom shall justify in 
real estate in the city of Holland, in a sum equal to the amount of 
the bond, over and above all indebtedness, and all exemptions from 
sale on execution, which bond shall be conditioned that such appli- 
cant shall keep and maintain an orderly and well regulated saloon, 
during the continuance of such license, and shall pay all fines, pen- 
alties, forfeitures and costs imposed upon him for the violation of 
any of the provisions of this ordinance. Provided, That at the op- 
tion of such applicant, the bond may be signed and secured by 
some conporation duly authorized to execute such bonds in the 
state of Michigan. 

Sec. 4. No person, licensed hereunder shall by himself, his 
clerk, servant, agent or employee, play or allow to be played, any 
musical instrument, or permit any singing, show or entertainment, 
or any other improper noise or disturbance, or any breach of the 
peace, in or about his saloon; nor permit to be or remain in his 
place any female, any intoxicated person, any person in the habit 
of becoming intoxicated, any minor under the age of twenty-one 
years, any person to whom it is forbidden by law to sell, furnish, 
or give any intoxicating liquors, or any person with reference to 
whom any notice in writing has been served on such licensee not 
to sell, furnish or give any intoxicating liquors as provided by 
the general laws of the State of Michigan. 

Sec. 5. Every person licensed hereunder, shall keep his 
saloon closed between the hours of ten o’clock in the afternoon and 
six o’clock in the forenoon of each week day, from the first day 
of May to the thirty-first day of October, both inclusive, and be- 
tween the hours of nine o’clock in the afternoon and seven o’clock 
in the forenoon of each week day, from the first day of November 
to the thirtieth day of April of each week day, and on Sundays and 
such legal holidays as are designated by the liquor laws of the 
State of Michigan. 

Sec. 6. No person licensed hereunder, shall at any time by 
himself, his clerk, servant, agent or employee permit or maintain 
any shades, curtains, screens or anything which in any way will 
obstruct a full and open view of the inside of the entire premises 
from the street upon which the same is located. 


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Sec. 7. The premises used by any person licensed hereunder 
shall consist of a ground floor space, shall consist of but a single 
room, and shall have no walls, partitions or any obstructions of 
any kind within it. which will in any way prevent a full view of the 
inside of the saloon from the street. 

Sec. 8. No person licensed hereunder, shall by himself, his 
clerk, servant, agent or employee, permit any person to play at 
cards, dice or any other game in his saloon. 


Sec. 9. No license granted under the provisions of this or- 
dinance shall be granted for a longer time than to expire on t* 
first Monday of June next, after the time when the same is grant- 
ed. 

Sec. 10. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions 
of this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by 
a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecu- 
tion, or by imprisonment in the city jail, or county jail of Ottawa 
county, for a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine 
and imprisonment in the discretion of the court or magistrate be- 
fore whom such conviction is had. 

Sec. 11 An ordinance entitled ‘‘An Ordinance Relative to the 
Sale of Intoxicating Liquors at Wholesale as a Beverage,’ passed 
April 27; A. D. 1914, is hereby repealed. 

Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days afte~ 
its passage by the Council, or if not by it passed, after it has been 
enacted into law by a vote of the electors of the city. 


No. 304 
AN ORDINANCE 


Relative to Shooting Galleries 
Passed July 1, A. D. 1914. Approved July 1, A. D. 1914. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. To obtain license for. 4. No minors allowed. 
2. Application for license. 5. Penalty. 

3. Bonds, fee, and revocation 6. When to take effect. 


of license. 


THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS: 

Sec. 1. No person shall keep a shooting gallery in the City of 
Holland, without having first obtained a license therefor from the 
Common Council of the City of Holland. 

Sec. 2. Every person desiring to keep a shooting xailery in the 
City of Holland, shall make application therefor to the Common 
Council, which application shall specify the name and residence of 
the applicant, the location where it is proposed to have the same, and 


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the length of time for which a license is desired, such location not 
being in a place where any intoxicating liquors are sold or furnish- 
ed, or connecting with any place where any intoxicating liquors are 
sold or furnished. 

Sec. 3. After the granting of such license the applicant shall 
pay to the City Treasurer, before the issuing of such license, the 
sum of twenty-five dollars for one year, fifteen dollars for six months, 
and five dollars for one month or less, provided, that no license shall 
be issued for a longer time than to expire on the first Monday of June 
next after its issuance. Such applicant shall also give a bond to the 
City of Holland in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two good 
and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Common Council, con- 
ditioned that the applicant shall keep an orderly and well regulated 
place, and pay all fines, penalties and costs that may be assessed 
against him, for any violation of the provisions of this ordinance. 
Any such license may be revoked by the Common Council, or may be 
suspended by order of the Chief of Police of the City of Holland, 
pending any time when the Council is not in session, and until the 
next regular meeting of the Council. 

Sec. 4. No person licensed hereunder shall permit any minor 
to be or remain in or around any such shooting gallery. 

Sec. 5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine 
of not more than one hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, 
or imprisonment in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County, for 
a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprison- 
ment inthe discretion of the court. And if such license is revoked 
by the Common Council, such person shall in addition to any other 
penalty, forfeit the amount paid for such license, 


Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 307 
AN ORDINANCE 


An Ordinance Relative to Dealers in Second Hand Goods, and 
Junk Dealers, and Persons engaged in the collection, pur- 
chase and sale of Junk, Rubber, Rags, Paper, Iron, Brass, 
Copper, Tin, and other materials, and for licensing persons 
engaged therein. 


Passed Oct. 7, 1914. Approved Oct. 8, 1914. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. What business unlawful. 6. Persons from whem  pur- 
2. License. fee. and bond. chase is prohibited. 

3. Not to take pledge or pawn. 7. Penalty. 

4. To exhibit goods bought. 8. Time when to take effect. 

5. Time limit for sale of goods. 


THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS: 


Sec. 1. No person shall engage in, exercise or carry on the 
business of dealer in second hand goods, or keep a junk shop, or 
what is commonly called a junk shop, for the purchase and sale of 
second hand goods, junk, rubber, rags, old iron, old rope, paper, bag- 
ging, brass, copper, tin, empty bottles, slush or lead; ner draw or 
drive or procure to be drawn or driven through the streets or alleys 
of the City of Holland, any wagon, hand cart, wheelbarrow, or other 
vehicle for the purpose of collecting or disposing of said articles 
without first obtaining a license therefore from the City of Holland, 
as hereinafter provided. 


Sec. 2. Any person desiring to become a dealer in secondhand 
goods, or to keep a junk shop, or to engage in any of the business 
mentioned in the first section, shall, before entering upon such busi- 
ness, make application for a license from the Common Council of 
the City of Holland, which shall be in writing, and shall state the 
location if any, and the nature of the business to be engaged in, in 
detail, and shall state the name and age of the applicant, and the ex- 
perience of the applicant in the business, if any, and shall be signed 
by the applicant. Each application shall also be accompanied by a 
bond in the sum of $200, with two or more sureties to be approved 
by the Common Council, conditioned that he will faithfully observe 
the provisions of the city charter and the ordinances of the city of 
Holland. Such applicant shall pay an annual license fee of $5, which 
shall be paid to the City Treasurer after the granting of the ap- 
plication by the Common Council, and before the issuing of the 
license. 

Sec. 3. No person licensed hereunder shall receive in the line 
of his business any article by the way of pledge or pawn, nor shall 


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he loan or advance any sum of money on the security of any artiele 
or thing unless specially licensed so to do. 

Sec. 4. Every person licensed under the provisions of this 
ordinance shall, on demand, exhibit all goods bought or received by 
him and give the description of the person selling tne same to the 
Chief of Police, any policeman, constable, or other officer, and shall 
keep a book containing a list of all persons of whom they purchas 
ed goods. 

Sec. 5. No person licensed hereunder, shall sell, or remove 
from his place of business, any articles purchased by him until the 
same have been in his possession at least 72 hours. 

Sec. 6. No dealer, or person engaged in the collection of junk 
shall purchase anything whatsoever from any person under the age 
of 16 years, unless accompanied with a written permit of the par- 
ent, or guardian consenting thereto, which permit shall specify the 
article or goods to be sold; nor from any intoxicated person or from 
an habitual drunkard, or from any person known by him to be a 
thief, or an associate of thieves, or a receiver of stolen property, or 
from any person whom he has reason to suspect of being such. 

Sec. 7. Any person violating any of the provisions of this or- 
dinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not 
more than $100 and the costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in 
the city jail or county jail of Ottawa county, for a period not exceed- 
ing 90 days or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of 
the court before whom such conviction is had. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


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No. 308 
AN ORDINANCE 


An Ordinance Relative to a Sanitary Sewer District in the City 
of Holland, and for Sewer Connections in Such Districts, and 
to Provide for the Payment for such Connections when 
Ordered by the City of Holland 


Passed, Oct. 12, 1914. Approved Oct. 12, 1914. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Sanitary District establish- 5. Payment and collection, if 
ed. made by City. 

2. What deemd unlawful. 6. Appropriation for Fund. 

8. How declared unlawful, and 7. Compulsory Sewer Connec- 
notice. tion Fund. 

4. In case of refusal or neglect 8. When to take effect. 


to make connection. 
THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS: 

Sec. 1. All property abutting on any street where a sanitary 
sewer has been laid and constructed, and all property within one 
hundred fifty feet of any street where any such sewer has been laid 
and constructed, shall be deemed to be located witnin the Sanitary 
Sewer District, in the City of Holland. 


Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corpor- 
ation to maintain any privy vault, cess pool, urinal, lavatory, closet, 
bath tub, or any other fixture or appliance for sanitary use, within 
such Sanitary Sewer District, unless the same is properly connected 
with the sanitary sewer system, in accordance with the ordinances of 
the City of Holland, and the rules and regulations or the Board of 
Health, Board of Public Works, or any other Board of the City of 
Holland, or such rules as have been laid down by the Common Coun- 
cil, or as may hereafter be enacted by competent authority; Provid- 
ed, that it shall not be necessary to make such connection, and this 
section shall not apply, until after an order so to do has veen made 
by the Common Council, upon a recommendation of the Board of 
Health, as hereinafter provided for. 


Sec. 3. Whenever the Board of Health shall by resolution de- 
termine, that the keping or having of any such privy vault, cess 
pool, urinal, lavatory, closet, bath tub, or any other fixture or ap- 
pliance for sanitary use, within such Sanitary Sewer District, and 
not connected as provided in section 2 of this ordinance, is danger- 
ous to the public health, the said Board of Health shall set forth in 
its said resolution wherein the same is unsanitary and dangerous to 
the public health, and what, in the judgment of the Board of Health 
is necessary to make the same sanitary, and free from danger to the 


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public health, and cause a copy of such resolution to we transmitted 
to the Common Council. After receiving the same the Council shall 
proceed to consider the same, in such manner as the Council shall 
determine, and if the Council does not agree with the resolution of 
the Board of Health, it shall so determine, and the matter shall not 
thereafter receive any further consideration, until such time as the 
Board of Health shall renew its resolution and the Council vote to 
receive the same from the Board of Health. If the council shall ap- 
prove of the resolution of the Board of Health, in manner and form, 
it shall so determine by resolution, and ghall fix the wime within 
which any such work shall be done, and changes in conditions made. 
The Council shall cause notice of its action to be served on the 
owner, agent, or occupant of the premises named in the resolution, 
within five days thereafter, by leaving a copy thereof with such 
owner, agent or occupant of the premises, if found, and if not found, 
then by posting the same on the premises. Such notice shall contain 
a copy of the resolution of the Board of Health and also of the 
Common Council, and shall set forth wherein the preinyses are un- 
sanitary or dangerous to the public health, and also what is required 
by the Common Council to be done. Upon receipt of such notice as 
herein provided for, the owner, agent or occupant of the premises 
shall proceed to comply with the orders of the Common Council 
within the time and in the manner therein specified. Such notice 
may be served by the City Inspector, or any Constable or Policeman 
of the City of Holland, and the City Inspector shall see to it wheth- 
er the order is complied with or not, and in case of non-compliance 
with any order, at the expiration of the time limited therefor, shall 
report the same to the Common Council. 

Sec. 4. Upon receiving such report from the City Inspector, 
that the order of the Council has not been complied with, the Com- 
mon Council shall proceed to have the same done in accordance with 
the terms and conditions of the notice by it caused to be served. The 
Council shall have plans, specifications and an estimate of cost 
thereof prepared by the Plumbing Inspector, and thereafter submit 
the same to bid, or proceed to have the same done by day labor, and 
by purchasing the materials necessary therefor in the open market, 
at the option of the party for whom the work is to be done, provided, 
such option shall be exercised before any bids are asked for. If the 
work is done by the City of Holland, it shall be done in accordance 
with the rules and regulations for doing any plumbing in the City 
and by workmen of a similar class required of the regularly licensed 
plumbers, and the total cost shall not exceed the amount of the 
estimate made thereon. If such work is let by bid, the Council shall 
reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Similar action may be 
taken by the Council, if requested so to do by anyone who has been 
ordered to make connections by the Common Council, after the 
service of the notice herein provided for. 


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Sec. 5. Any work done and materials furnished, as required by 
the order of the Common Council, shall be accounted for by the 
officer or agent of the City, having such matter in charge, to the 
Common Council, and such account shall be verified by the oath of 
the person submitting the same, and shall be properly itemized. 
Any expense incurred therefor shall become a claim against the own- 
er of the premises, and shall also be a lien wpon the premises where 
the work was done and the materials furnished. A statement for 
the same shall be rendered to the owner of the premises, if known, 
or if not known, then to the agent or occupant thereof, within thirty 
days after the completion thereof, and report of same to the Common 
Council. Such statement shall be made by the City Clerk, and be 
by him certified as correct, in accordance with the report as pre- 
sented to the Common Council. Such bills may be paid to the City 
Treasurer at his office, at any time before the first day wf September, 
next after the same is rendered, without additional expense. If not 
so paid, then such bills as remain unpaid shall be certified by the 
City Clerk to the Board of Assessors, during the month of Septem- 
ber, for assessment against the several premises therein designated. 
The same may be certified for payment in one or more installments 
as the Council shall determine, but in no case shall the number of 
installments exceed ten, and all installments shall be annual, after 
such determination, the number to tbe ordered by the Council shall 
be determined by the request of the party to pay the same if the 
Council shall accede to such request, otherwise such number as the 
Council may fix on its own motion, and special asessments shall be 
levied thereon and in accordance therewith, by the Board of Assess- 
ors. To all such unpaid sums the Board of Assessors shall add inter- 
est at the rate of six per cent per annum. Installments shall be 
deemed to be due on the first day of February of each year, but 
shall be payable during the month of December next preceding, 
without costs other than herein provided for. The Board of Assessors 
shall add to the total sum to ‘be levied the sum of one dollar which 
shall be to cover the cost of advertising, and spreading the amounts 
on the assessment rolls. The balance on any such amount may be 
paid at any time to the city treasurer, by paying the balance of the 
installments, with interest thereon for the then current year. 


Sec. 6. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions 
of this ordinance there is hereby appropriated from the General 
Sewer Fund the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, and there is hereby 
created and said sum is ordered credited to the ‘‘Compulsory Sewer 
Connection Fund,’’ and said appropriation shall be the amount of 
such fund for the remainder of the fiscal year. Hereafter such 
amount shall be appropriated annually as the Council shall deter- 
mine in the Annual Appropriation Bill. 


Sec. 7. All bills incurred under the provisions of this ordin- 


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ance shall be paid from the “Compulsory Sewer Connection Fund,” 
and all moneys collected from the several rolls and persons for 
moneys so expended shall be returned into said fund. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take immediate effect. 


No. 309 
AN ORDINANCE 


An Ordinance Relative to the Showing of Indecent, Immoral 
Obscene, Vulgar or Suggestive Pictures in any Moving or 
Other Picture Show, in the City of Holland 


Passed, Oct. 21, 1914. Approved, Oct. 21, 1914. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. What pictures prohibited. S$. Penalty. 

2. Who may, stop, and who to 4. Revocation of license. 
enforce ordinance. 5. When to take effect. 


THE CITY OF HOLLAND) ORDAINS: 


Sec. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person licensed to operate 
any show in the City of Holland, by himself or his agent or employee, 
to show any picture whether a so-called ‘“‘moving picture’’ or still 
picture, or part moving and part still picture, which shows any in- 
decent, immoral, obscene, vulgar, or suggestive picture, or any pic- 
ture of any bloodshed, lust, or crime, in any place licensed under 
any ordinance of the City of Holland. 


Sec. 2. The Council shall appoint a committee of not less than 
five citizens of the City of Holland, whose duty it shall be to enforce 
the provisions of this ordinance. The persons composing said com- 
mittee shall be considered duly and regularly appointed officers of 
the City of Holland. Said committee shall work in conjunction with 
the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners of the City of Holland, 
and their duly appointed officers. The appointment of said commit- 
tee shall not relieve the other officers of the City of Holland of 
any duty or responsibility in enforcing the laws of the State of Mich- 
igan, and the ordinances of the City of Holland. If any picture is 
shown, which in the opinion of the Board of Police and Fire Commis- 
sioners, or any of its duly appointed officers, or of any member of 
said committee, is within the prohibition prescribed, such officer 
or member of said Board or Committee shall immediately order and 
cause the owner or operator to stop such picture, and it shall not 
again be shown or attempted to be shown, and such order shall be 
final. Provided, no owner or operator shall be required to show any 
picture except at a regularly advertised show. 


Sec. 3. If any person shall violate any of the provisions of this 


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ordinance, upon conviction thereof, he shall be punished by a fine of 
not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and the 
costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the city jail or county 
jail of Ottawa county, for a period not less than ten days nor more 
than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discre- 
tion of the court. 

Sec. 4. If any person repeats any such prohibited picture after 
being ordered not to show the same, or persists in showing 
such picture after such order not to show it, or if any one is convict- 
ed more than once under the provisions of this ordinance, his license 
to operate a show in the City of Holland shall be revoked. The license 
of any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance may 
be suspended by order of the Board of Police and Fire Commission- 
ers, or by the President of such Board, or by order of the Chief of 
Police or the Mayor, until the next meeting of the Common Council, 
when action shall be taken thereon. 


Sec. 5. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 


No. 310 
AN ORDINANCE 


An Ordinance Relative to City Scavengers 
Passed, Nov. 18, 1914. Approved, Nov. 18, 1914. 


Sec. Sec. 

1. Appointment. 6. Penalty. 

2. Bond, 7. Repealing clause. 

3. Bids for appointment. 8. When to take effect. 
4. Duty of. 9. Saving clause. 

5. Price. 


THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS: 

See. 1. The Common Council shall annually, on the first Mon- 
day of May appoint one or more persons as City Scavengers, as here- 
inafter provided, and no person shall engage in our carry on the 
business of a scavenger, or collect and dispose of any garbage ex- 
crement, and refuse in the city of Holland, unless so duly appoint- 
ed. 

Sec. 2. Every person appointed as city scavenger, shall give 
with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the council, 
conditioned upon the faithful performance of the work and duties 
required of him, by the ordinances of the city and the rules and 
regulations of the Board of Health. 

Sec. 38. The Board of Health shall annually, »n the month of 
April, advertise for bids from persons desiring to be appointed as 


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city scavengers. Such bids shall describe the territory or part of 
the city in which such person desires such appointment, if less than 
the entire city, and what part of the work he wishes to carry on, if 
less than all that is required by this ordinance and the rules and 
regulations of the Board of Health, and shall state the price in the 
usual units. The price for garbage, excrement and refuse shall be 
stated separately, and may also be stated to cover for all, if the bid- 
der so desires. The Board of Health shall report all such bids to 
the Common Council, with its recommendation thereon. The right 
shall be reserved to reject any and all bids. 

Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of such scavenger or scavengers to 
collect all garbage, excrement, or refuse in the city, or such route 
as is resignated to them, and to dispose of the same as the Board of 
Health may order and direct. | 


Sec. 5. The price shall be such as the scavenger appointed has 
bid in his proposal to the Board of Health, and no more. If no bids 
are received, the price shall be fixed by the Common Council. 

Sec. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this 
ordinance upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not 
exceeding one hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, or by 
imprisonment in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County, for 
a ‘period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprison- 
ment in the discretion of the court; and in case a fine and costs only 
shall be imposed the offender may be sentenced to be imprisoned 
in the city jail or county jail of Ottawa County, unti] the payment 
of such fine and costs, not exceeding ninety days. 

Sec. 7. Ordinance No. 253, entitled ‘“‘“An Ordinance Relative to 
City Scavengers” passed July 22, 1907, and approved July 23, 1907, 
and the amendments thereto, be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 8. This ordinance shall take effect twenty days after its 
passage. 

Sec. 9. All provisions relative to City Scavenzers heretofore 


made, shall remain in effect until the first Monday of May, A. D. 
1915. 


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No. 311 


AN ORDINANCE 


Health Rules and Regulations 
Passed by Board of Health September 14, 1914, 
Passed by Common Council, Nov. 18, 1914. 
Approved, Nov. 18, 1914. 


Rule. Rule. 
1. Filthy water, garbage etc. 20. Quarantine. 
2. Carcasses. 21. Removal of signs and en- 
3. Slaughter houses, etic. try of persons in quaran- 
4. Hog pens, etc. tined premises, 
5. Stables, yards, etc. 22. Deliver of food stuffs at 
6. Spitting. quarantined premises. 
7. Rubbish, ashes, etc. 23. In event of death of per- 
8. Garbage district. son from contagious dis- 
9. Meats, poultry, etc. ease. 
10. Food products, chemically ease, 
treated. 24. Bringing infected person 
11. Markets, or clothing from out of 
12. Bakers and confectioners. city. 
13. Privies and cesspools, 25. In event of recovery. 
14, Oleaning of same. 26. Premises not to be re- oc- 
15. Construction of and fees cupied until when. 
for cleaning. 27. Tuberculosis. 
16. Notice of communicable 28. Premises to be healthful. 
diseases, 29. Cleaning of premises. 
17. Physicians to report. 30. Removing cards, etc., from 
18. Removal of infected per- any article, etc, 
sons or clothing. 31. Veterinarians. 
19. Schools etc. not to permit Penalties. 
infected persons in. | When to take effect. 


It is hereby ordered by the Board of Health, and 
THE CITY OF HOLLAND ORDAINS: 


I. To Precent Contamination of the Air. 


Rule 1. No person, firm or corporation shall deposit or permit 
to remain in or on their premises any filthy or stagnant water, anv 
foul slops, foul drains or garbage, decaying or decayed animal or 
vegetable matter, decaying or decayed fruit, or any offensive thing 
that may give rise to poisonous, foul, or offensive gases or vapors; 
nor shall they deposit the same in any street, alley, public space, 
private premises, not in any stream within the city limits. 

Rule 2. The carcass of any animal or fowl that has died with- 
in the city limits, shall be removed by the owner thereof within 
twenty-four hours, and buried at a depth sufficient to prevent any 


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stench; provided, that the carcass of a horse, cow, mule, dog, or of 
any of the other larger animals shall not be buried within the city 
limits and that the carcass of a fowl shall not be buried within fifty 
feet of any well. 

Rule 3. No person firm or corporation shall keep or main- 
tain any slaughter house, slaughter yard, or slaughter pen, within 
the city limits; nor shall any person engage in rendering tallow, 
lard, or any animal tissue, as a business, except such rendering shall 
be so conducted as not to give rise to offensive odors. 

Rule 4. The keeping and maintaining of hogs or hog pens, 
within the city limits, is hereby expressly forbidden; nor shall it be 
lawful for any person, firm or corporation to have and maintain any 
stable, yard, or structure where cattle are kept within fifty feet of 
any dwelling house, occupied building, well or spring, nor any struc- 
ture, yard or enclosure for the confining of chickens, geese or other 
fowl, or stable where horses, mules or other animals are kept within 
twenty-five feet from any dwelling house or occupied building except 
that of the owner of said fowl or animals, or within fifty feet of any 
well or spring. 

Rule 5. All stables, yards, and enclosures, where horses, cat- 
ile, or fowl are kept, shall be kept free from filth and dirt. All} 
manure must be kept in bins completely enclosed, bottom, top, and 
sides, and from the first day of May to the first day of November of 
each year shall be kept constantly screened from fies. All manure 
bins shall be entirely emptied and thoroughly cleaned at least once 
in every two weeks. 

Rule 6. Spitting or expectorating upon the floors of any pub- 
lic building, street car, or public conveyance, or upon any sidewalk, 
crossing, entrance, or other public place, is a menace to publie 
health and the ordinance relating thereto shall be strictly enforced 
by the police department of the City of Holland. 

Rule 7. All rubbish such as waste paper, tin cans, leaves, 
ashes, cast off crockery, bottles, glassware and such other substances 
as do not properly constitute garbage shall be kept in suitable bins 
or containers, and shall be removed before the first day of June 
of each year and again before the first day of December of each 
year; nor shall any of such rubbish be deposited upon any street, 
alley, public space, or vacant lot, except by permission of the Board 
of Health, first had and obtained. 

Rule 8. A garbage district is hereby established, which shall 
include all of the territory within the city limits and which Shall be 
governed by the following regulations: 


First—Each and every householder, or occupant of any dwell- 
ing house, boarding house or restaurant having garbage to dispose 
of, shall provide one or more metal cans, sufficient to receive all 
garbage that may accumulate between times of collection: each 
can to have a capacity not to exceed ten gallons and dueeieica with 


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a handle, bail, and tight fitting cover. These cans must be so placed 
that they shall at all times be readily accessible for removing or 
emptying the same and no other receptable shall be used for gar- 
bage. 

Second—All garbage accumulating between the times of col- 
lection shall be placed in such cans; provided, that no tin cans, wire, 
or metal of any kind, glass, chinaware, crockery, or eearse rubbish, 
shall be placed in such Cans. 

Third—All garbage deposited in said cans shall be removed 
once a week by a licensed scavenger or garbage collector, except in 
cases of hotels, restaurants and boarding houses, where garbage 
shall be colected and removed daily. The expense of such collection 
shall be paid by the owner, agent, occupant or tenany of the prem- 
ises from which the said garbage is collected, but in no instanca 
shall the fee charged for such collection exceed five cents per week 
for each can, whole or part. In case of restaurants and hotels, tight 
barrels with tight fitting covers may bé used in place of cans. 

Fourth—The scavenger or garbage collector shall provide a 
covered tank wagon, so constructed that it shall not leak or spill, 
in which all garbage to be removed shall be collected and conveyed 
to places at least one-quarter of one mile outside the city limits, there 
to be disposed of. 

Fifth—The wagon and conveyors used for the collection shall 
be cleansed, and as free from offensive odors as possible; nor shall 
they be kept in any street, alley, or public place, nor upon any 
private premises longer than is reasonably necessary to collect the 
garbage, nor within the city limits except by permission of the health 
officer. 

II, To Prevent Contamination of Food. 

Rule 9. It shall not be lawful for any vendor of meats, poultry, 
fish, vegetables, fruits, candy, or confectionery to expose the same 
on the ouiside of markets, stalls, or streets, or in open windows or 
doorways, unless constantly protected from dirt, dust, filth, flies, and 
and injurious substance; it is aiso required that all fish and poultry, 
intended for sale in the City of Holland, shall be drawn and pro- 
perly cleaned immediately after being killed. 

Rule 10. It shall be unlawful for anyone to sell or offer for 
sale any tainted, unwholesome, or diseased meats, fish, poultry, or 
products of the same, or any decayed or unwholesome fruit or 
vegetables, nor shall such meat, fish, poultry, or other products be 
treated chemically or otherwise to disguise or overcome signs or 
appearance of taint. 

The Health Officer, City Inspector, or any member of the Board 
of Health may seize and confiscate any such taintea, unwholesome, 
or diseased meats, fish, poultry, or products of the Same, or decayed 
or unwholesome fruit or vegetables, or any of said articles which 
have been chemically treated as aforesaid. 


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The Health Officer, City Inspector, or any memper of the Board 
of Health may affix, or cause to be affixed to such meats, fish, or 
poultry, which is tainted or unwholesome or diseased, or to any pré- 
ducts of the same, or to any receptable or package containing the 
same, a card or tag stating that the same has been condemned and 
the reason therefor. 

Rule 11. Every butcher and market man shall keep the floor 
blocks, counters, locker, utensils and every part of his market an} 
premises, clean and free from all filth and dirt and flies. 

Rule 12. Every baker and confectioner, and every dealer in 
baked goods and confectionery, shall keep his cases, counters, tables 
and utensils, shelves and every part of his place of business, clean; 
and shall protect all such baked goods and confectionery from dust, 
dirt, flles and all manner of filth until delivered to the customer. 

III. To Prevent Contamination of Drinking Water. 

Rule 13. No privy, vault, or cesspool shall be placed or per- 
mitted within fifty feet of any well, spring or other source of water 
supply, used for cooking or drinking purposes. It is also ordered 
that whenever any well, spring, or source of water supply is deemed 
unwholesome or unsafe by the Board of Health, the same shall be 


put in a safe and wholesome condition, or shall be removed and its 


use discontinued. 

Rule 14. All privy vaults and cesspools shall be cleaned once 
a year, between the first day of April and the first day of December 
of each year, and the contents shall be collected and removed by a 
licensed scavenger in tightly covered tank-wagons or in barrels, 
approved by the Board of Health, and conveyed to a place at least 
one-fourth of one mile cutside of the city limits, there to be dis- 
posed of by the trenching method. The scavenger shall deodorize 
the contents of the cesspcol or vaults before removing the same, by 
mixing with solution of copperas or other approved, efficient deodor- 
ant. The expense of cleaning out such vault and cesspool shall be 
paid by the owner, agent, occupant or tenant of the premises on 
which the same are located, but in no instance shall the fee be 
larger than such as fixed by the Board of Health, under agreement 
with the licensed scavenger as provided for by the ordinances of 
the City of Holland. 

No coarse rubbish, tin cans, metal, glassware, wire, or wood 
shall be deposited in vaults or cesspools. 

Rule 15. All new privies and closets shall be constructed with 
a drawer so arranged that it can be readily removed and emptied of 
its contents. When used, sufficient dry earth, ashes or slaked lime 
must be used daily to absorb all the fluid parts of the deposit. The 
maximum fee for cleaning any such drawer shall be fixed by the 
Board of Health, under the provisions of the ordinances of the City 
of Holland. Provided, however, that no new privies shall be per4 


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mitted to be built or constructed, where in the opinion of the Board 
of Health, sewer connection can reasonably be had. 

Rule 16. It shall be the duty of every owner, agent, or Oc- 
cupant of any dwelling house or other building in which there shall 
occur a case of any communicable disease dangerous to the public 
health, to immediately give notice thereof to the Health Officer of 
the City of Holland. 

Rule 17. Any physician who may be called to attend any case 
of communicable disease dangerous to the public health shall at 
once report such case to the Health Officer. 

Rule 18. No person sick with any communicable disease dang- 
erous to the public health,nor any clothing or other property that 
may have been exposed to infection, shall be removed, nor shall any 
occupant take up residence elsewhere, without the consent and under 
the direction of the Health Officer. 

Rule 19. No teacher, principal, professor, or superintendent, 
of any day-school, college, or Sunday school shall knowingly permit 
any child, pupil, or student, with any communicable disease, or any 
child or person residing in a house where there is a case of scarlet 
fever, diphtheria, smallpox, measles, epidemic cerebro spinal min- 
ingitis, infantile paralysis, or tuberculosis, to attend school, class, or 
service, under his or her charge, until such time as the Health Officer 
certifies to such teacher, principal, professor, or superintendent, 
that the said child or person may attend without danger of coim- 
municating the disease to others. 

Rule 20. Upon receipt of the notice provided for in rules 16 
and 17, the Board of Health, or its officers, whenever tn their opin- 
ion a disease dangerous to public health exists, shall take the neces- 
sary measures by placard, quarantine, and otherwise, to prevent the 
spread of such disease. 


Rule 21. No person shall remove or deface any card or sign 
from any building or premises, which may have been placed there 
by order of the Board of Health or Health Officer. No occupant of 
said placarded building or premises shall leave the same, and no 
person, except the attending physician, nurse, and clergyman, shall 
enter the same without first obtaining the permissron of the Board 
of Health or the Health Officer; provided, that such physician, or 
clergyman, when called in to a case of scarlet fever, diptheria, meas- 
les, or smallpox, shall wear a contagious disease gown, the same 
to be properly disinfected with formaldehyde or bi-chloride solution, 
after each visit. 

Rule 22. No person delvering any milk, or any food stuffs to 
any house or premises under quarantine, shall remove from such 
dwelling house or premises, any bottles, crates, baskets or contain- 
ers, for food stuffs, without the consent of the Health Officer, and 
not until after such bottles, crates, baskets or containers have been. 


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sterilized, and the quarantine rendering shall be so conducted as 
removed from such dwelling house or premises. 

Rule 23. In case of death from scarlet fever, diphtheria, 
measles or smallpox, the body shall be privately conveyed to the 
cemetery and buried therein without any public funeral services. 
In such cases burial shall be within tweny-four hvurs after deathi, 
except when otherwise specially permitted by the written order of 
the Health Officer. 

Rule 24. No person sick with scarlet fever, diphteria, measles, 
smallpox, tuberculosis or any dangerous communicable disease, and 
no corpse of any person having died from any of the above named 
diseases, and no article which has been infected with or is liable 
to convey any such disease, shall be brought within the limits of 
the city of Holland, without the special permit and direction of the 
Board of Health. 

Rule 25. In case of recovery or death, from any of the afore 
mentioned contagious diseases, the clothing, rooms, and all suca 
articles as may have been exposed to infections, shall be disinfected, 
and all such articles as cannot be thoroughly disinfected shall bs 
destroyed by burning. 

Rule 26. No house or tenement vacated by a person or per- 
sons affected by any of the diseases herein mentioned or referred to, 
shall thereafter be re-occupied until it shall have been disinfected 
by the Board of Health, in accordance with the rules and regula- 
tions as laid down by the State Board of Health. 

Rule 27. Pulmonary tuberculosis, or consumption, being re: 
garded by the medical profession as an infectious and communicabje 
disease, and dangerous ito the public health, it is ordered that every 
physician in this city, attending any person having such disease, 
shall forthwith report the same to the Board of Health, in the same 
manner as in the case of other contagious diseases; and every house- 
holder, in whose family a case of pulmonary tuberculosis is known 
to exist, shall notify the Board of Health of the removal of the 
patient from the house of tenement, of the removal of the family, 
giving the new address. 


V. General Provisions. 


Rule 28. It shall be the duty of the owner, or owners, of 
any building, lot or premises, in the City of Holland whether oc- 
cupied by himself or by a tenant, to keep or cause such building, lot 
or premises, to be kept, in a sanitary and healthful condition, and in 
accordance with these rules and regulations. 


Rule 29. If any building, lot, or premises, within the City of 
Holland, is not kept in a sanitary and healthful condition, and in 
accordance with these rules and regulations, the Health Officer, City 
Inspector, or any policeman or constable of the City, upon the order 
of the Board of Health; shall serve a notice upon the owner, agent, 


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a sanitary and healthful condition, and in act...uauve with these 
rules and regulations, within a reasonable time, to be stated in 
such notice. If said owner, agent or occupant shall fail to comply 
with the requirements of said notice, within the time therein named, 
it shall be the duty of the City Inspector to cause said work to be 
done and the expense thereof, shall be charged to such owner, or 
assessed against the premises as other special assessments are levied 
and collected. 

Rule 30. No person shall remove or deface any card or sign 
from any building or premises, or from any can, package, or article, 
which may have been placed there by order of the Board of Health, 
or the Health Officer. 

Rule 31. Every licensed veterinarian, practicing in this city, 
shall immediately report to the Health Officer, any animal affected 
with any disease which is dangerous to other animals, or to the 
public health, the nature of such disease, and the name and location 
of the owner of such animal, whenever any such animal shall come 
under the observation of such veterinarian in the City of Holland. 
He shall also immediately report to the Health Officer the name and , 
location of any owner of any cow or cows, having any disease, and % 5 LU’ , 
from which any milk is being sold in the City of Holland, or which ee ag 
he has reason to believe that the milk is being sold or furnished in 
the City of Holland. 

VI. Penalties. 


In addition to any other penalty herein provided for, any per- 
son or persons who shall violate any of these rules, upon conviction 
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than two dollars nor 
more than one hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution, or by ini- 
prisonment in the city jail of the city of Holland, or county jail of 
Ottawa County, for a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such 
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court or magistrate. 
And in case a fine and costs only shall be imposed, such person may 
be committed to said city jail or county jail of Ottawa County, until 
the payment of such fine and costs not exceeding ninety days. 


These health regulations shall take effect twenty days after 
their passage and adoption. 


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